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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Doubt in find command Post 92294 by vino on Friday 9th of December 2005 06:24:05 AM
Old 12-09-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by mona
Hi All,

I wanted to list all the files in the current directory which contains the pattern "error". I tried the following grep command

Code:
grep -i 'error' *.*

but i got the error message "ksh: /usr/bin/grep: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long."

Any idea why the grep didn't work?
Note: There are hundreds of files which contains this pattern.
Not sure if the length makes a difference. You might want to see this post - Command line buffer limit? and Grep line length constraint problem - help!
Last edited by vino; 12-09-2005 at 07:30 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

zgrep

ZGREP(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ZGREP(1)

NAME

     zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep -- print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files

SYNOPSIS

     zgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...]

     zegrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...]

     zfgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     zgrep runs grep(1) on files or stdin, if no files argument is given, after decompressing them with zcat(1).

     The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1).  If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern
     argument.

     zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1).

EXIT STATUS

     In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0.

SEE ALSO

     egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), gzip(1), zcat(1)

AUTHORS

     Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>

BSD
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