On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:33:43 -0700 website reader <[email protected]> wrote:
> To bash gurus: > > I just now ran into the wall while processing files in a long > simulation run, there are over 50,000 files in one directory and now > the bash shell expansion wild card character * is expanding command > line arguments and then the infamous "too many argments" message is > given. This is particularly bad while trying the ls command: "ls > *file* ( I apparently understand that there is a limitation in the > readdir() command buffer size) Randall, I believe the xargs(1) command can help you here. --Dale -- "Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together." --Carl Zwanzig
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