[PLUG] Re: Unix Tip: TOO MANY FILES AROUND

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Wed Oct 11 20:57:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 08:10 -0700, Auke Kok wrote:

> Anyway, if you're really doing something like above, you should have used:
> 
> grep -r "ABC" .
> 
> which doesn't care how many files there are :)

Assuming, of course, you're on a platform where grep has a recursive
option.  (AIX 4.3.3 and Solaris 8 don't, for example.  Yes, I'm still
suck with an AIX 4.3.3 box around.)

Wil
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