can't grep in the RH system

[ust]

When I grep a file find the system by "grep -i "edp" ./*" , then it pop the below message , I think it is because too many files in the system, could suggest how to fix it ? thx.

bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long

[scm]

When I grep a file find the system by "grep -i "edp" ./*" , then it pop the below message , I think it is because too many files in the system, could suggest how to fix it ? thx.

bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long

How many files do you have in your current directory? "ls | wc -l" will tell you.
You could use xargs to deliver large quantities of arguments to programs, "man xargs" for more details.

Also, you could just use * instead of ./* to get your file list.