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Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 10:43:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Robinow <drobinow@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: wildcard expansion once more
To: Andre Berton <andre.berton@gmx.de>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
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--- Andre Berton <andre.berton@gmx.de> wrote:
> While processing large amounts of data, cygwin runs
> into trouble with
> wildcard expansion (it happens only while processing
> thousands of files). For example:
>        ls */*.txt 
> comes up with
> bash: //c/cygtools/....bin/ls: Invalid argument
>
 This is a bug. It should say "Arg list too long." or
something similar. 
> It seems there is a memory limitation (for ls). Do
> you know any work-around?
 Yes, but nothing as convenient as ls */*.txt
> (I'm using the latest binary release of cygwin and
> haven't found 
> an appropriate answer to my question in the
> archive.)
 This is not a cygwin problem.  Unix expands wildcards
in the shell and most tools don't handle wildcards.
(unzip is one exception).
  What you see is normal behaviour for a unix system.

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