Okay, that makes sense. Thanks!
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joseph Tate wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > ls * is expanded by the shell. Bash generally limits the length of a > command to something rediculously long, but with that many files you're > going over that limit if you try to use any type of wildcard. You can > ls | xargs -n 1 <WHATEVER> if you need to do stuff on lots of files. > > Mike Norwood wrote: > > |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 > |> > |> > | > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (Cygwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iQCVAwUBPy7MaIj0CKOSIRGqAQLczgP+I9JbOr0vYAZ9BfXM34kVIhswRj6qM2cN > nfe4X1EZoWVDAfWSNCUVTjsZ8EgeveMxnsa7oNM/uDXWWtJVj6pH45er7Cn0FHfu > r7ZlcMJdZ++hkDuzHQxs6QFNcZ9nLxIMgUCezAf6UBGFRt6LrVEoEN9lj1T4gyKU > mbcCSOxUr/Y= > =xhYW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- 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
