Jussi Hirvi wrote:
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen
that in Fedora.
This issue is in Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, (put any other linux
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:49:02AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Jussi Hirvi wrote:
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen
that in Fedora.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:48 AM, fred smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere
(probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for
storing the comamndline.
There are two possible buffer limits one could
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:48 AM, fred smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere
(probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for
storing the comamndline.
There
Bill Campbell wrote:
There are two possible buffer limits one could encounter: tty driver
input line buffer (which is not an issue for bash because readline
avoids it) and kernel exec space for the arguments plus environment
passed to a new process. Only the second one causes the error
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy,
but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a
bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working
that had been written on
MHR wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy,
but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a
bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working
that had been
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote:
Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole
fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much
bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big
event way back when. Then Fortran
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote:
Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole
fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much
bandwidth, but the switch from
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote:
Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole
fossils are still around, and
On Oct 17, 2008, at 7:58 PM, thad wrote:
Satchel Paige - Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings
Jussi Hirvi a écrit :
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show
(ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really annoying to
say, for example
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
and get only argument list too long as feedback.
I doubt this.
On Oct 18, 2008, at 8:13 PM, mouss wrote:
Jussi Hirvi a écrit :
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS
can show
(ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really
annoying to
say, for example
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
and get only argument list
and get only argument list too long as feedback.
Is there a way to go round this problem?
I have CentOS 5.2.
I'm not going to repeat some of the good advice given to you by others
as to how to avoid this error, but will instead tell you this is related
to the ARG_MAX variable.
The
On 2008-10-17 11:30, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show
(ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really annoying to
say, for example
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
and get only argument list too long as feedback.
Is there
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen
that in Fedora.
Are you sure you are comparing apples to apples? There is nothing
particularly Centos specific
Jussi Hirvi wrote:
Lawrence Guirre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (17.10.2008 12:55):
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen
that in Fedora.
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show
(ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really annoying to
say, for example
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
and get only argument list too long as feedback.
Is there a way to go round this problem?
I have
Lawrence Guirre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (17.10.2008 12:55):
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen
that in Fedora.
- Jussi
--
Jussi Hirvi *
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
Jussi Hirvi wrote:
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show
(ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really annoying to
say, for example
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
and get only
2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show
(ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really annoying to
say, for example
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
and get only argument list too long as feedback.
Is
Yes, you are right - my example was misleading.
Thanks for the very easy solution (cd into directory). Have to try it the
next time.
- Jussi
Paul Bijnens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (17.10.2008 13:18):
I believe you gave a bad example!
In the command
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
the
Satchel Paige - Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show
(ls), or how large directories
thad wrote:
Satchel Paige - Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show
(ls), or how
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