On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Subba Rao wrote:
> I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for
> some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an
> asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect,
>
> "File argument list too long"
>
Might be the shell's limit, too - * expansion is done by the shell. Maybe
try grep -r <directory>
--
marie
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