Re: [TCLUG:21649] Limits of grep?

[dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:23:51AM -0500, Adam Maloney wrote:
> The shell expands the *, not grep.  You want to use either xargs or a
> script:
> 
> for file in `ls -1`
> do
>   grep "string" $file
> done
> 
> xargs is really the solution though, check the manual.
> 

I think it would just be 

find . -type f | xargs grep pattern

Where pattern is what you're searching for.  Though, I'm not sure if the
shell will complain about this or not, but I don't think so.  If I had a
dir with 10000 files in it, I'd let you know for sure :)

Gabe

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