Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 17:15:46 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Vladislav Prodan <universite@ukr.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Argument list too long Message-ID: <20130307161546.GV47829@e-new.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <82112.1362671436.13776555968178880512@ffe17.ukr.net> References: <82112.1362671436.13776555968178880512@ffe17.ukr.net>
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:50:36PM +0200, Vladislav Prodan wrote:
> Why 12K small files from one directory to cause problems?
>
> # ll | wc -l
> 11467
>
> # grep X-PHP-Script * | more
> /sbin/grep: Argument list too long.
>
> # egrep X-PHP-Script *.ua | more
> /usr/sbin/egrep: Argument list too long.
>
> # cat *.ua | grep X-PHP-Script | more
> /sbin/cat: Argument list too long.
>
>
>
Your shell can't process that many arguments. Use this:
grep -R "X-PHP-Script" .
or if you don't want to descent into subdirectories:
find . -type -f -name '*.ua' -maxdepth 1 -exec grep "X-PHP-Script" {} \+
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