David Miller wrote: > Apologies if this belongs on -questions. I couldn't find what I needed in > the archives or handbook. > > I have a system where I need/want to handle lots of files in a single > directory. Lots as in 100-200K files. ls | wc -l breaks because the > value of ARG_MAX in sys/syslimits.h is too small. If I change it from > 65536 to 4meg and rebuild the world it works fine.
I don't believe you. There is no ARG_MAX limit on pipes. Probably, you are doing something whic you aren't telling us, like saying "ls *.c | wc -l" or otherwise using globbing that the shell expands to too large a list. The easy answer is "use ``find'' instead of ``ls''". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
