> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger D Mcgraw, Jr [SMTP:roger@ptac.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:58 AM
> To: sun-managers
> Subject: fgrep problems
>
> Hi all,
> I am having some trouble with a piece of software... I have
> traced the problem down to a system call that looks as follows:
> (This works for a while, but then quits working....)
>
> fgrep -v -x -f match rilist
>
> I found why it sometimes works....Its the length of the lists...
> When I type the above in from command line i get :
>
> wordlist too large
>
>
> So, Is there some sort of environment variables I can set to
> make fgrep
> able to handle larger lists?
> --
>
Apparently fgrep in /usr/bin has been broken for quite a while across
many solaris versions.
I found multiple bug reports with no patches. The good news is that
/usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep works absolutly fine.
Therefore the fix was as follows:
alias fgrep /usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep
--
Roger McGraw
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