[clue-tech] Too many words from ``

[matthew.w.mcillece at lmco.com]

I occasionally need to search for every occurrence of a string in many (if
not all) the files in a directory tree.  I can usually just do a

grep -ns string `find /path/to/tree -name "*" -print` | more

to get each line that the string occurs on, with the filename and line
number and no complaints about files that can't be accessed.

However, sometimes I get the, "Too many words from ``" message and no other
output.  I assume this message is generated by grep in response to a list of
files that is bigger than it can handle.  Does anyone have a workaround for
when this occurs?  Is there a way to make grep work with a bigger list of
files?

-Matt