[alexisl]

I am trying to find a file that contains the word FATR but when I use the grep command it says the arguement list is too long. I can't narrow down the list very far because all the files in the directory are name pretty close to the same. I can use the find command to narrow it down to files created today but is there any way to send that to grep. I have tried to use the pipe but it will only look at the filename and not inside. Can someone please help?

[rydekull]

Personally I always go along the lines with:
for i in $(find .) ; do grep FATR $i && echo $i ; done

Of course, there are several ways to do it.

[wiery]

The reason you are getting argument list too long is down to the ARG/ENV system settings, the default on AIX is 4. You can find this out using the following command

lsattr -El sys0 |grep ncargs

This can be increased, i currently have it set to 128 but have gone as high as 512

[alexisl]

Mine is set at 6, how do I change it?

[wiery]

smitty system -> change show characteristics of the operating system, and the option is in there as ENV/ARG ...

[alexisl]

Thanks, I just changed mine to 128 which should be large enough to handle everything I need

[steevojb]

Hi There,

I would use the following find command

find . -name "*" -exec grep -l 'string' {} \;

HTH

Steve