[clue-tech] Too many words from ``
Lynn Danielson
lynnd at techangle.com
Tue Jul 18 23:07:35 MDT 2000
"grant at amadensor.com" wrote:
>
> grep also has a recursive option to avoid that find junk completely:
> grep -nsr string /path/*|less (I like less better than more)
Grant, this is cool. It doesn't seem to suffer from the too
many arguments error, but I tried it on my root directory and
quickly got a "memory exhausted" error. Piping find to xargs
doesn't seem to suffer from this limitation.
Lynn
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