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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers problems with grep on solaris 5.8 Post 53006 by manualvin on Thursday 1st of July 2004 10:25:41 PM
Old 07-01-2004
Data problems with grep on solaris 5.8
Hi all,

I have a problem when i grep for a particular field among all fhe files in the directory.

if i do an ls -l field *
i can find it.

however at the moment the number of files in the directory are close to 28000 and it returns an

ksh: /usr/bin/grep: arg list too long

Assuming i just want to grep all files with a date at say Jun 28 as the range and not all of them, how do i do it on the command line?

Regards,
Alvin
 

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zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)
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