On Sunday 19 November 2006 7:55 pm, rikona wrote: > On Sunday, November 19, 2006, 7:12:48 AM, Chris wrote: > > C> Quick question maybe someone can answer. I'm trying to grep a > C> number in a group of messages in my maildir file. There are 4000 > C> messages in this folder and when running grep -l 20773 * I get an > C> "Argument list too long" which I've come to realize is because of > C> the number of messages, in this case, it has to look through. Is > C> there a simple work around for this or will I have to work in > C> blocks of say, 1000? > Sorry, I've been negligent in my replies, too much spam to look at take care of, I forgot to thank all of you who replied.
Thanks Chris -- Chris
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