------------------------------------------------ On 09 Oct 2003 11:54:00 -0400, Kevin Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > We use the Barracuda Spam appliance (barracudanetworks.com) to filter > our spam and their web based interface is written in Perl. They have a > form that allows the user to search messages for key words. Evidentally > it stores the each message in a file in a directory and when trying to > search several hundred thousand messages for a word the response back > is: > > egrep: argument list too long > > It looks like their using grep via a system command or the grep function > in Perl. > > Now, to my question. How do others get around the limitations of > sending stuff to grep? > > I know they're probably not aware of it yet as we just got the firmware > update the other day. I'm a perl programmer so I thought I'd try to > figure out the solution and send it to them to incorporate into the > firmware. > > Any ideas? > To get around this in the past I have used 'find' combined with an 'exec' switch because that shortens the arg list to 'egrep' to one for each file found, but this isn't a terribly elegant (or fast) solution for a distributed software package. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
