[lug] Limits of grep?

[Subba Rao]

On  0, "Jeffrey B. Siegal" <jbs at quiotix.com> wrote:
> Subba Rao wrote:
> > Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of
> > files?
> 
> cd [directory to search]
> find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep [string to match] /dev/null
> 

Thanks for replying. The following solution worked for me and is much faster.

find <path> -print | xargs -n 500 grep <pattern>

Thanks to everyone who replied with a solution!

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Subba Rao
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