On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 11:46, Steve Grazzini wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:35:25AM -0400, Kevin Old wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 02:44, Steve Grazzini wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:21:57PM -0400, Kevin Old wrote: > > > > Are you sure about using ls? We have directory here that has several > > > > thousand files in it and when doing an ls *.whatever-extension we always > > > > get an "argument list too long". > > > > > > > > Any idea what the actual file limit is for grep? > > > > > > It's a system limit (not specific to grep) based on the size-in-bytes > > > of the argument list (not the number of items). > > > > So it's related to my ulimit open files? > > No. (It's ARG_MAX...)
I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and my ARG_MAX is not set, so is it "unlimited"? If not, what is the default? Is it the same on other *nix systems? Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
