Arg list too long error? Here's a work-around.

Paul Chamberlain tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com
Tue Nov 27 05:56:06 AEST 1990


In article <728 at npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer at npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
>I replaced it with
>egrep -v 'parma_a|parm_b|...|parm_r' filename.

	egrep -v 'parma_[a-r]' filename.

Would've been a lot less typing.

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