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RE: Command-line length limit in bash with cygwin?
- To: "'Karr, David'" <david.karr@attws.com>, "'cygwin'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: RE: Command-line length limit in bash with cygwin?
- From: John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:39:39 -0400
Try
find . -name ... | xargs grep somestring
or some variation thereof (like find -print0 and xargs -0 -r)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@attws.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 3:35 PM
> To: 'cygwin'
> Subject: RE: Command-line length limit in bash with cygwin?
>
>
> Is there really no way to do this? I find that I often hit
> this when I try
> do something like:
>
> grep somestring $(find . -name ...)
>
> ----------
> From: Karr, David [SMTP:david.karr@attws.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 2:54 PM
> To: 'cygwin'
> Subject: Command-line length limit in bash with cygwin?
>
> I'm noticing that bash has a command-line length limit of 32k
> characters.
> Is this a hard limit, or is there any way to configure it to be
> larger?
>
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