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Re: Limits of grep?
Subba Rao wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for
> some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an
> asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect,
>
> "File argument list too long"
>
Besides Shachar's answer about using 'find', you could also use the
'xargs' command. In this case, 'ls | xargs grep <pattern>' should do the
trick.
Gavrie.
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Gavrie Philipson
Netmor Applied Modeling Research Ltd.
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