[olug] ideas??

[Daniel Linder]

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Dave Weis said:
> Noel Leistad wrote:
>> Is this something obvious....
>>
>> have a script that calls grep ~phrase~ /path to files/*|tail
>>
>> if I put script in directory in path, I get
>> "/bin/grep: Augument list too long"
>>
>> if I C/P line from script and execute directly in /path to files/ as
>> grep ~phrase~ *
>>
>> I get valid response (at least until file count in directory goes to
>> high)
>
> I usually use something like this:
>
> find path -exec grep -H {} \;
>
> So you could use
>
> find /path/to/files -exec grep -H {} \;
>
> find is a very versatile program and can do substantially more than you
> would think.
>
> dave
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