On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 05:25:23PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: [...] > 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
If you quote the *.html, ie: find . -name '*.html' -print | xargs grep __FILE__ this will avoid the arg-list too long problem. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by" - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message