[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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