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... -- Mike Reaser, Atlanta, GA, USA EverCrack Widower & Occasional Roageek ICQ 36141307 If it's there, remove the YOUKNOW to, well, you know "Ignorance" is as much a method of computer security as "Hope" is a method of birth control. -- K. Ward & L. N. Joynes, c. 1986 * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *