Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:52:15 -0500 From: "Bill Moran" <bill_moran2@hotmail.com> To: paulbeard@mac.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD? Message-ID: <F116hOBPqvTEbnm0hrD0000fe7f@hotmail.com>
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>From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> > >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. Makes no difference, I get the same error. >to get a file coun, 'ls | wc' might work. That helped! I've got >3000 files in that directory. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_stopmorespam_3mf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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