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Old 08-23-2002
Perderabo and crazykelso - both solutions eliminate the error message; just a matter of whether or not the op needs that large file in the same folder as the 5300 smaller files..

As for grepping, I just modified your script a bit Perderabo:

Code:
cd your_folder
ls | while read fn ; do
 grep search_string $fn
done > all
exit 0

 
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