Re: ksh - ls NAME.* <-Argument list too long

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2006/12/20 14:34, Sebastian Rother wrote:
> mailgw $ ls | wc -l
>    10656
> mailgw $ ls Backdoor.* | wc -l
> ksh: ls: Argument list too long
>    0

You exceeded ARG_MAX bytes;

$ getconf ARG_MAX
262144

from sysconf(3):

     _SC_ARG_MAX
             The maximum bytes of arguments to exec(3) (including the
             environment).

> Could that be a "Bug"?

no.