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
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