[ILUG] Limits of grep?

[Gary McCloskey]

Would glimpse do what you want. If you're not familiar with it, it pre-builds indices (indexes ?) of text files, and allows you to search them subsequently. Blisteringly fast.

Gary.


#-----Original Message-----
#From: Subba Rao

#I have a directory of 10000+ text files and would like to search for
#some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an
#asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect,
#
#	"File argument list too long"
#
#What is the file argument limit for grep? I guess you need the grep source
#for this. I did not find any information in the man page.
#
#Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of
#files?