recursive grep

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <3478 at yunexus.UUCP> oz at yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>out of fashion, too simple, or because of broken shells, ("Arguments too
>long" ?? Nooo... really ??) nobody suggested something like
>	egrep ptui `find whatever -print`

Nobody suggested it because, as you indicated, it doesn't work if the
find output is too large.  It's not "broken shells"; it's an operating
system restriction.