Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:46:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: jason dictos <jason@dictos.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Searching contents of files Message-ID: <20031022064243.U51615@njamn8or.bc.hsia.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <200310211158.11136.jason@dictos.com> References: <200310211158.11136.jason@dictos.com>
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, jason dictos wrote:
> I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for
> files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't
> always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error
> "Argument list too long").
>
> Is there a more effective way to search the contents of files?
Try:
find /whateverdirectory -type f -print | xargs grep mysearchstring
Cheers,
Viktor
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