> 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?
Rather than calling egrep REGEX really long list of files ... they should be calling (ksh here, use "echo" instead of "print" for other shells): print really long list of files | xargs egrep REGEX Luke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
