Description of problem: I've got a directory of 12000 files, and I want to grep for a string. I find that typing 'grep mystring *' fails with the error message: /bin/grep: Argument list too long. This is internally generated by grep, because typing 'echo *' works fine. My workaround is 'find . -type f | xargs -n 1637 grep mystring', because that's the most arguments grep can handle. WTHeck? I thought one of the goals of the GNU project was the elimination of artificial limits like this. Has someone replaced the code for grep and not told anyone? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grep-2.5.1-57.fc7.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create 14000 files with 20-letter filenames 2. grep anystring * Actual results: /bin/grep: Argument list too long. Expected results: It should just work. Additional info: I'm using tcsh as my shell; is that why 'echo' can handle it but ordinary commands can't?
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