Re: find | egrep

1999-10-11 Thread John Forest
Enrico Zini wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able > > to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in > > it. I read in the manual ie "man egrep" that the lines are limi

Re: find | egrep

1999-10-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need to be able > to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in > it. find . -type f -print | xargs egrep pattern /dev/null Enrico Zini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > find | xargs egrep "pattern" ... except that you

Re: find | egrep

1999-10-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Oct, Enrico Zini wrote about "Re: find | egrep" > > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able >> to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in

Re: find | egrep

1999-10-10 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able > to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in > it. I read in the manual ie "man egrep" that the lines are limited to 2048 > bytes. The error

find | egrep

1999-10-10 Thread zdrysdal
Hi Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in it. I read in the manual ie "man egrep" that the lines are limited to 2048 bytes. The error i get is "/usr/bin/find: 0403-027 The parameter li