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 Message-ID: <3F9F7FA3.6060809@free.fr> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:51:47 +0100 From: Nicolas BUONOMO User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash /usr/bin/ls invalid argument References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id h9T8sBWB015892 Hello, Hannu E K Nevalainen a écrit : >>From: Jared Ingersoll >>Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:55 PM > > .... > > There is a 32KB length limit on the command line. This is imposed on us by > the underlying "OS" - i.e. not likely to change. > > > To check how long your command line would be, try something like this: > > $ find -type f -name 'send.log.*' | > ( > read f; > cc=-1; > echo ""; > while [ ! -z "$f" ];do > cc=$(( 1 + $cc + $( echo "$f" | wc -c) )); > echo -e "\e[F$cc\e[K";read f; > done; > echo -e "\e[F$cc chars" > ) > > Remember to add the length of e.g. "ls -l " (note space). > > If this gives a number larger than... > > $ echo $(( ( 1 << 15 ) -1 )) > 32767 > > ... then you're "outta luck". > I try your command on a Microsoft XP pro and I win nicolas@cl12369n ~ s=1 $ find -type f -name '*' | ( read f; cc=-1; echo ""; while [ ! -z "$f" ]; do cc=$(( 1 + $cc + $( echo "$f" | wc -c) )); echo -e "\e[F$cc\e[K";read f; done; echo -e "\e[F$cc chars"; ) 1789980 chars Where is the problem? bye > /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E > -- printf("Timezone: %s\n", (DST)?"UTC+02":"UTC+01"); -- > --END OF MESSAGE-- > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > >