Searching contents of files

jason dictos jason at dictos.com
Tue Oct 21 23:58:50 PDT 2003


Hi All,

   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?

Thanks,
-Jason


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