in reply to Reading a Directory of Files, Searching for Text, Outputting Matches

It seems you are searching for a combination of find, xargs, grep and simple output redirection. No perl needed:

find /some/where/in/the/wild -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -A3
+ 'needle_in_the_haystack' > result.txt

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