Alfred -- ...and then Alfred M. Szmidt said... % % Please read the Coreutils FAQ, it describes your problem in detail [1]. % % Argument list too long
There's a very interesting wrinkle here, though... As he has posted, he actually has fewer files in the .05 directory than he has in the .01 directory. Oh, wait -- Phil, are all fo the files in these dirs of a standard name format, or could they be anything? More precisely, have [any of] the files in .05 longer names than in, say, .01? echo 01.01.01/* | wc -c echo 01.02.01/* | wc -c echo 01.03.01/* | wc -c echo 01.04.01/* | wc -c echo 01.05.01/* | wc -c There is the "too many things" kind of 'too long' and there's the "too many characters" kind of 'too long'; you may be hitting the *second* one rather than the first. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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