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07-14-2011

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Originally Posted by michaelrozar17

Use ls instead of cat and -l option of grep would tell you which file-name contains the 'myword'

That is a useless use of ls *. At best your the result is no different, and less efficient. Worst case, xargs will be confused by filenames with spaces when a simple *.doc would not.

It won't help fight "too many arguments" errors either. Feeding the too many arguments into ls instead of grep is still too many arguments. The way to not get too many arguments is to not use too many arguments, by using tools like find instead of shell globbing.

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