in reply to Perl script does not work on other directories?

Run the following one-liner in your CLI within the directory whose files you want to check:
perl -nE 'say qq(found $1 in $ARGV, line $.) if /(my search string)/; 
+close ARGV if eof;' ./*

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Of course you replace "my search string" by the string or pattern you are looking for.

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