From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 14:28: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CFB37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f75.law15.hotmail.com [64.4.23.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5729543EB2 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:28:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill_moran2@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:25:23 -0800 Received: from 66.132.12.15 by lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:25:23 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.132.12.15] From: "Bill Moran" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD? Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:25:23 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Dec 2002 22:25:23.0824 (UTC) FILETIME=[5A034700:01C2AB9B] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files. This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can I get a count of this?) Anyway, I'm trying to find the docs on some features that the www.php.net's search isn't really helping on (searching for __FILE__ doesn't search for __FILE__ ... it searches for file, and there's too many results) so I try: grep __FILE__ *.html and I get the error: -bash: /usr/bin/grep: Argument list too long 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 I did a little research, and Linux has the MAX_ARG_PAGES kernel option to increase the size of the command line arguments it can process ... does FreeBSD have such a kernel option, or some other way of overcoming this limit? _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_eliminateviruses_3mf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message