Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:01:04 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org> To: Bill Moran <bill_moran2@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021225183104.GB614@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
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+++ Bill Moran [freebsd] [24/12/02 17:25 -0500]:
| Anyway, I'm trying to find the docs on some features that
| the www.php.net's search isn't really helping on (searching
| for __FILE__ doesn't search for __FILE__ ... it searches for
| file, and there's too many results) so I try:
| grep __FILE__ *.html
| and I get the error:
| - -bash: /usr/bin/grep: Argument list too long
| Is this a shortcoming of bash, grep or FreeBSD? I'm assuming
| it's not grep, as the command:
| find . -name *.html -print | xargs grep __FILE__
| yeilds:
| - -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long
try this one
find . -iname "*.html" -exec grep "__FILE__" {} \;
or maybe you can use "locate"
Regards,
Shantanu
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