Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/05/14:09:38
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote:
> At 10:26 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote:
> >
> > > I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files with
> > > about 80K characters.
> > >
> > > I get the following
> > >
> > > bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long
> > >
> > > If I reduce the total characters to less then 32K it works fine. This
> > > list is a list of the source files in a development tree retrieved with
> > > find.
> >
> > a) wrong list.
>
> And what was the right list?
See <http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists>. I redirected it to
the right list and set the Reply-To accordingly. I also did so for this
message - please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To header.
> > b) try "xargs".
>
> mounting per your instructions fixed the problem.
Good. However, "xargs" is the generally used solution for this anyway --
and it's also faster since it doesn't have to build up and then parse the
argument list string.
> > > I just updated to see if this announcement,
> > >
> > > Updated: findutils-4.2.10-5,
> > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00207.html would fix it,
> > > but it does not appear to do so.
> >
> > c) why would findutils fix a problem with grep?
> >
> > > I know this is not a problem under linux, and I don't remember it being
> > > a problem in earlier versions of cygwin. Is this a feature or a bug?
> > > If it is a bug, despite reading abut reporting bugs on the cygwin web
> > > site I still am totally uncertain about how one would report this bug.
> > > Guidance here would be appreciated.
> >
> > d) CGF suggested
> > "mount -X c:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin; mount -X c:\cygwin\bin /bin"
> > Don't know how well it'll work, but it's worth a try.
>
> What is CGF?
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CGF>.
> > Oh, and please review <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
>
> I did, before and after, I it got me to here, as possibly the least
> obnoxious thing I could do.
By "here" do you mean the cygwin-talk list? And where, pray tell, is the
cygwin-talk list mentioned on that page? Or do you mean the "lists.html"
link that mentions cygwin-talk as the list where you could be ridiculed
for asking just about anything? BTW, the "main cygwin list" that it
refers to is <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, which, incidentally, is the list
I redirected your question to.
HTH,
Igor
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