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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: recursive grep
Message-ID: <10891@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 Aug 89 01:25:13 GMT
References: <666@lakart.UUCP> <1641@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <7774@cbmvax.UUCP> <3478@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3478@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>out of fashion, too simple, or because of broken shells, ("Arguments too
>long" ?? Nooo... really ??) nobody suggested something like
>	egrep ptui `find whatever -print`

Nobody suggested it because, as you indicated, it doesn't work if the
find output is too large.  It's not "broken shells"; it's an operating
system restriction.