On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 05:25:23PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
[...]
> 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
If you quote the *.html, ie:
find . -name '*.html' -print | xargs grep __FILE__
this will avoid the arg-list too long problem.
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