On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:38:43PM -0800, plug bert wrote: > 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
You're going to have to replace a lot of binaries, then. Try "ls *", "du *", and other such commands in that directory. Confused yet? Under Unix, the shell expands filename wildcards on the command line before the command is invoked. You can see how this works by going to a smaller directory and typing "echo *". There are various workarounds. You may just want to split your directories up. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- 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
