[ILUG] Limits of grep?

[Subba Rao]

On  0, Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear.ie> wrote:
> At 12:00 26/09/00, Paul Kelly wrote:
> >Subba Rao wrote:
> > > 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...
> >
> >That's a shell issue as much as grep. Try find . -print | xargs grep
> >"pattern"
> 
> This will go wrong on any file that has a space or a shell meta character 
> and may even end abruptly. To avoid this use
> 
> find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep "pattern"
> 
> find will output the filenames in null separated format and xargs will 
> expect them like that,
> 

Thanks for replying. I tried the following solution and works much faster.

find <path> -print | xargs -n 500 grep <pattern>

Thanks to everyone who replied with a solution!

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