Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 18:59:04 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Bill Moran <bill_moran2@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021225055904.GA3877@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <F75NOUivlQoMuDGzxTs0003baec@hotmail.com> References: <F75NOUivlQoMuDGzxTs0003baec@hotmail.com>
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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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