[wplug] need help with command

[Jonathan S Billings]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 16:54, Bob Schmertz wrote:
> Jonathan S Billings incurred the wrath of Bob on Sep 11, by saying
> 
> >On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:53, Bob Schmertz wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> % find . -type f | xargs grep "*stuff*"
> >
> >This is an OK solution, until you get into situations where you have a
> >densely populated directory tree, and you exceed the command-line length
> >for a command (grep, in particular).  I've run into this problem myself.
> 
> The -n option should take care of this nicely.  For some of the other 
> problems mentioned in other posts, however, sounds like xargs may not 
> be the answer.

Actually, no, it shouldn't because xargs is still getting a rather long
list of arguments, the limit of which is defined by the shell.

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Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
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