[plug] Limits of grep?

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

Does anyone recognize this message?

It was posted to both these lists. I wonder how many other lists it was
posted to? I know that a number of people have responded to Mr Rao's
request on both lists, and wonder if he really needs to waste so many
people's time.

I remember an old maxim from Usenet days: Many people take, few give.

At 06:38 AM 9/26/00 +0000, Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net> 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"
>
>What is the file argument limit for grep? I guess you need the grep source
>for this. I did not find any information in the man page.
>
>Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of
>files?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Subba Rao
>subb3 at attglobal.net
>http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba