Argument list too long

[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:50:36PM +0200, Vladislav Prodan wrote:
> Why 12K small files from one directory to cause problems?
> 
> # ll | wc -l
>    11467
> 
> # grep X-PHP-Script * | more
> /sbin/grep: Argument list too long.
> 
> # egrep X-PHP-Script *.ua | more
> /usr/sbin/egrep: Argument list too long.
> 
> # cat *.ua | grep X-PHP-Script | more
> /sbin/cat: Argument list too long.
> 
> 
> 

Your shell can't process that many arguments. Use this:

grep -R "X-PHP-Script" .

or if you don't want to descent into subdirectories:

find . -type -f -name '*.ua' -maxdepth 1 -exec grep "X-PHP-Script" {} \+



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