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I used grep -rL instead of l ..... because I want to copy files that do not contain the previously mentioned string. But the number of files seems to stop this command from working. Does anyone have more suggestions?

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Re: Re: Re: grep or perl
by halley (Prior) on Jun 04, 2003 at 13:22 UTC

    This is why another poster suggested xargs. xargs reads arguments from standard input, and executes a command with arguments. It chunks the input and repeats the command as required, to avoid going over any command-line-length limits of the shell.

    Instead of just (xargs --help), try (man xargs) for some examples (search for EXAMPLES) and details.

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Re:^3 grep or perl
by flounder99 (Friar) on Jun 04, 2003 at 13:22 UTC
    That is why broquaint used xargs. It runs a command for each argument (whitespace separated) it gets on its STDIN. Try reading man xargs

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Re: Re: Re: grep or perl
by nite_man (Deacon) on Jun 04, 2003 at 13:19 UTC
    Well, you are right about L but why doesn't grep -rL work? Maybe I didn't understand clearly but I checked this command and all are working correctly. 
          
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