Re: Limits of grep?

[Sachin Garg <sachin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, 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"

I guess u r getting the error from the shell. The command line to the
shell:

 grep foo file1 file2 ... filen

would be tooo long ...


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