On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:29:57PM +0200, Gabi Davar wrote:
>
> If you have grep v2.4+ you can do the following:
>
> grep -r "SPECIFIC TEXT" /*
>
> The xargs method breaks if you have too many filenames or a few long
> filenames.
Not neccessarily, and not if you use "xargs -s 2048 grep" which will make
xargs call grep with at most 2048 characters of its own.
Alexander Skwar
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