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To: Bill Moran <bill_moran2@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Bill Moran wrote:

> other way of overcoming this limit?

	find . -name "*.html" | xargs grep someting

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