Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/21/15:47:31
bergeron AT hiwaay DOT net (Wayne Bergeron) wrote:
>Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>>
>>On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Wayne Bergeron wrote:
>>
>>> >Get the latest beta version from Daisuke Aoyama's home page. This
>>> >problem has been fixed a long time ago.
>>>
>>> Thanks. Got it. Tried it. Still have the situation. I am using ls
>>> version 3.13 from GNU Utils. No problem there, is there? The command
>>> is 'ls j:/tp*/*/u*'. This should find several dozen files. Bash does
>>> support multi-level directory wildcarding, doesn't it?
>>
>>Yes, such wildcards are supported.
>>
>>How many files is there, anyway? Maybe you did overflow the limits?
>>Does that command work from ye olde COMMAND.COM? I was just able to
>>list about 1400 files with a similar command using the latest bash.
>>
>>Btw, is that `ls' from the DJGPP port (v2gnu/fil313b.zip) on
>>SimTel.NET, or some other port?
>
>That is the zip file.
>
>The total files that ls should find in the directory tree:
>
>ls j:/tp* 4 directories
>ls j:/tp*/* 373 directories
>ls j:/tp*/*/* 14,150 files total
>ls j:/tp*/*/u* (what I wanted) 704 files
>
>Sorry I didn't include the statistics earlier. I was trying to use
>the bash/ls combination to get this because you have to play with DOS
>to get it to give just the information above. I did a DOS dir of the
>entire disk, an used grep and wc to count the files. ls is easier,
>and plays with other UNIX utilities, when available. This is the type
>of thing I will be doing a lot of in the future.
>
>Thanks for your consideration.
> -- WB
>
WB Received the following from Mr. Daisuke Aoyama via e-mail:
>Probably the expanded arguments are more than transfer buffer. So DJGPP's
>library complains about this. New version is tried to pass the arguments
>through to the response file when fail to run. Please check it yourself.
>Note that BASH's builtin comamnds (like echo) are not limited about this.
>Try to run builtin echo instead of ls.exe.
>>support multi-level directory wildcarding, doesn't it?
>Yes. BASH supports multiple asterisks.
>Daisuke Aoyama
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>Daisuke Aoyama
This seems to be the case, since 'echo' works. Thanks to all for the
help.
-- WB
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