Also, how come just "ls" in that directory works, but "ls *" gets this error message?
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Mike Norwood wrote: > Hello, > > I have a directory on a Redhat 7.2 machine that has over 11000 files in > it. If I try to ls, cp, mv or rm this I get a message "Argument list too > long". I can do what I need to do with the files in other ways, but I am > just curious is there a way to get past this. I did some google searches, > but can't find anything that clearly says what causes this limit and if > there is a way to expand it. > > Thanks in advance. > > Mike Norwood > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
