Mike Hornsby <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>It turns out that in this case the hard way is not too hard:) If you place
>the following commands in a file called SEARCH, and this file is in your
>current path, then you can easily search a directory structure for all files
>containing a specific string. (note:the grep parms are -IL in lower case)
>If the group is too large you may get a *Segmentation violation* but
>otherwise this works ok. BTW, I get the same error if I use the Find command
>first then piped to Grep:(

I had a similar issue 2 years ago with feeding a mondo-number of filenames
into a command triggering the dreaded Segmentation Violation, and was told
by the RC to use xargs to split it up.  :-(

Kills performance, but...

>parm SrchString,SrchFiles
>purge shellin,temp >$null
>echo grep -il '!SrchString' !SrchFiles     >shellin

...replace this line with

echo "ls !SrchFiles | xargs -i grep -il '!SrchString' {} \;" >shellin

and you *should* avoid the dreaded error.

>echo exit                                >>shellin
>xeq sh.hpbin.sys    <shellin

HTH,

Mike, coming up on his Silver Anniversary with MPE...


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