Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:42:38 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: Bill Moran <bill_moran2@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3E08E2DE.3080102@mac.com> References: <F75NOUivlQoMuDGzxTs0003baec@hotmail.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files. > This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can > I get a count of this?) > 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 grep "__FILE__" *.html. to get a file coun, 'ls | wc' might work. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html>; 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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