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Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:05:32 -0600
From:	wayne <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: problem with bash
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Reply-To:	Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
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In-Reply-To:	<3DD3F26D.8000609@Salira.com>; from ADeFaria@Salira.com on Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:58:53AM -0800
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You do if you an argument list that is to large.  try using just
ls with 7000 files and see what happens. :-)

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:58:53AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> > Well, if you really want something equivalent to 'ls *', you'd need to 
> > do something like
> >
> > find . -maxdepth 1 \( -name .\* -o -print \) | xargs ls
> >
> > The "-maxdepth 1" is to not descend recursively into directories, and 
> > the "-name .\*" is to avoid listing hidden files/directories (which 
> > would not be matched by the '*' glob). The "-type f" is actually 
> > wrong, as '*' will match directories as well.
> >
> > Also beware that ls may be an alias, and xargs will run the actual 
> > executable in the path...
> 
> Huh?!? Just type ls! You don't need anything else and certainly not 
> something as complicated as what you propose.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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