Re: [PLUG] CLI for "find" text string in an unknown file

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:54:37AM -0400, bergman@merctech.com said:
> => Or, just grep -lr <directory>
> 
> Yep. Modulo the issues with embedded whitespace.

No issues with whitespace with that approach.

> 	* I haven't looked at the code for grep in many years, and GNU utils 
> 		tend to be good about eliminating arbitrary limits or making
> 		them huge, but this may still be an issue.

That has nothing to do with the gnu tools, it comes from the c library.
`getconf ARG_MAX` for a reasonable idea of what you can get away with.
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