Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?

[Bill Moran]

d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files.
This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can
I get a count of this?)
Anyway, I'm trying to find the docs on some features that
the www.php.net's search isn't really helping on (searching
for __FILE__ doesn't search for __FILE__ ... it searches for
file, and there's too many results) so I try:
grep __FILE__ *.html
and I get the error:
-bash: /usr/bin/grep: Argument list too long
Is this a shortcoming of bash, grep or FreeBSD? I'm assuming
it's not grep, as the command:
find . -name *.html -print | xargs grep __FILE__
yeilds:
-bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long

I did a little research, and Linux has the MAX_ARG_PAGES kernel
option to increase the size of the command line arguments it
can process ... does FreeBSD have such a kernel option, or some
other way of overcoming this limit?

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