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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting arg list too long error Post 302479084 by Kristin_in_CO on Thursday 9th of December 2010 06:53:16 PM
Old 12-09-2010
Thanks for your responses!

rdcwayx - I got the same error:
Code:
/usr/bin/ls: arg list too long

methyl - I got this to work, however it runs very slow. Is there a way this would work as a one liner and not in a loop? I don't know if that would speed it up though since it's looking through 30,000 files.
Code:
(
find "${LOGDIR}" -type f -name \*\.log -print | while read FILENAME
do
           nawk "/Nov 21/{_=2}_&&_--" "${FILENAME}"
done
) 2>&1 >> $NEWLOGFILE

Last edited by Scott; 12-13-2010 at 03:48 PM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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