Finding Keywords in file

[jaymax]

Directory with several thousands of links to *.gz compressed file
used

zcat * | grep -in keyword

returns

/usr/bin/zcat: Argument list too long

used some tricks to make arguments smaller, like

zcat 1* | grep -in keyword

works in some cases, but not all fileset, could probably write a script around it but would have to do so for several other commands.
Is there any quick and dirty way to do so?

 

[DutchDaemon]

Not sure if it helps, but zgrep(1) will at least save a couple of thousand system calls ..

 

[wblock@]

% find . -exec zgrep -in keyword {} \+