Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:54:44 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Andrew Markebo cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ls : fails with a long list In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote: > > | ~> ls -Al /usr/local/op/h/routines/[c-q]* | wc > | bash: /usr/bin/ls: Invalid argument > | 0 0 0 > > I think it is a bash-'problem', bash have only allocated X bytes as > command-line buffer and therefore throws up when too much info (it is > bash that converts the * to files) is squeezed into it. > > How to fix it, don't have it on my mind now, but some way.. The > easiest might be do a cd /usr/local/op/h/routines and ls -Al from > there.. > > Or use find, and rotate through those files with a loop and do ls -Al > on them.. or split the ls -Al into two ls -Al's [a-n]* and [m-z]* > /Andy Got two words for you: 'find' and 'xargs'... ;-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/