Limits of grep?

[sgordon at kenan.com (Seth Gordon)]

The most general way to handle this problem is by using xargs.  The
command "ls *.c | xargs grep aardvark" is equivalent to "grep aardvark
*.c", except that if there are too many .c files to fit in the shell's
buffer for a single command, the xargs command will run grep several
times until all the .c files have been grepped.

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