can't grep in the RH system

ust · 05-24-2005, 02:10 AM

When I grep a file find the system by "grep -i "edp" ./*" , then it pop the below message , I think it is because too many files in the system, could suggest how to fix it ? thx.

bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long

Xolo · 05-24-2005, 04:55 AM

Perhaps something like

Code:

find ./* -iname edp

would work?

ust · 05-24-2005, 05:03 AM

thx reply , but your method still not work.

kees-jan · 05-24-2005, 05:24 AM

I would propose

Code:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i edp

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

eddiebaby1023 · 05-24-2005, 08:26 AM

Code:

ls | xargs grep -i edp

should do the same as the failing command (apart from failing, of course!).

eddiebaby1023 · 05-24-2005, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ust
thx reply , but your method still not work.

That's because it's the shell wildcard expansion that's blowing the argument list space in the case of both commands.