[plug] Limits of grep?

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Subba Rao wrote:

> I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for

> Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of
> files?

for X in *
do
  grep -q textstring $X && echo FOUND textstring in $X
done

 - Matt