If you are using the ls command to list the files in the directory, try using the find command instead. The ls command is faster, but it has issues with really large numbers of files.
-------------------------------------------------- Charlie Rubeor Senior Database Administrator Wiremold/Legrand 60 Woodlawn Street West Hartford, CT 06110 Tel: 860-233-6251 x3498 Fax: 860-523-3690 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/21/2007 09:54 AM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject [U2] AIX Argument list too long Hi all. This is a bit off-topic, but I believe the expertise is here. . . I have routines that parse through Unix files in a directory and remove them based on age. If the number of files exceeds some limit I've not been able to narrow down, I get a response from the scripts that it can't do the job because there's too many files in the directory. Does anyone know: 1. what I'm talking about and what causes it? 2. how to solve this through some tunable parameter, preferrably not requiring a kernel rebuild? TIA, -- Karl Pearson Director of I.T. ATS Industrial Supply, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atsindustrial.com 800-789-9300 x29 Local: 801-978-4429 Fax: 801-972-3888 "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
