On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, jason dictos wrote:
> I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for > files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't > always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error > "Argument list too long"). > > Is there a more effective way to search the contents of files? Try: find /whateverdirectory -type f -print | xargs grep mysearchstring Cheers, Viktor _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"