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2K grep problem

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Bent Kirkegaar
#1 / 10

2K grep problem

Does anyone know how to make a grep in files with line lengths of more than
2K?
If you perform this command:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -i what-ever
AIX will fail several times with this error:
grep: 0652-226 Maximum line length of 2048 exceeded.
Linux and Solaris doesn't have this limitation, so I was wondering why AIX
does and what can be done about it. Any ideas?

Thanks
Bent

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:46:59 GMT

Jan Aerysiewi
#2 / 10

2K grep problem

W artykule <985675654.419...@ns.cci.dk>, Bent Kirkegaard napisa3(a):

try to use

find . -type f -exec grep what-ever {} /;

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Jan Artysiewicz

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:05:02 GMT

Christer Pal
#3 / 10

2K grep problem

Uhm? Why would that make a difference??

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Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:44:32 GMT

hg
#4 / 10

2K grep problem

Try something like that with awk :
find . -type f | awk '/what-ever/ {print $0}'
Awk is not as limited as grep
For the syntax awk in docsearch has lot of examples

Hoping to be helpfull
Henri

Bent Kirkegaard a crit :

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:38:29 GMT

Jan Aerysiewi
#5 / 10

2K grep problem

W artykule <3AC0C362.7BB25...@nogui.se>, Christer Palm napisa3(a):

in first case it exands to

grep what-ever file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 ...

and this command line is too long

in second

grep what-ever file1
grep what-ever file2
grep what-ever file3
grep what-ever file4
grep what-ever file5
............

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Jan Artysiewicz

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:16:04 GMT

Stev
#6 / 10

2K grep problem

Also try strings <file> | grep <what-ever>

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Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:22:32 GMT

Christer Pal
#7 / 10

2K grep problem

xargs never generates command lines that are too long...

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Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:07:55 GMT

Norman Levi
#8 / 10

2K grep problem

** I think the line limit came from the line limit in editors. If you
can't edit it, you can't grep it. Maybe you need to port the gnu grep?
Probably part of the linux toolkit.

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Norman Levin

greatest power, the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the
leader.'"

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:13:00 GMT

Jan Aerysiewi
#9 / 10

2K grep problem

W artykule <3AC21A56.E0B57...@nogui.se>, Christer Palm napisa3(a):

it's true
xargs generated argument that grep can not handle
it's a grep problem

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Jan Artysiewicz

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:52:04 GMT

Andreas Fun
#10 / 10

2K grep problem

Perhaps the you should install the gnu version of grep and try if it is
better?