plug bert said: > Hello All, > > Can anyone reccommend a replacement for grep? i found > out that even the latest version(2.5.1) has a problem > with directories with several hundreds of files; i.e. > i get an "argument list too long" error
hmm... you're having that kind of error too? Whats your condition when that message was outputed? im having that one too, its really annoying, even when you remove some of the files to be greped it still outputs that message. If you know perl you could make regular expression parsing on binary and text files, you could also use other language such as C but perl is much easier since its made for that job(Practical Extract and Report Language). cheers, -- "rm -rf /mnt/windows" Marc Henry Galang winmarctechnologies.com.ph Adventist University of the Philippines BSCS -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
