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: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:37:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Vinay Kumar cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ls could not list all files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Vinay Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > I am facing strange problem. I have a directory test1 in which there > are number of files. I am running following command and see some problem > here. > > $ ls test1/* | wc > 2745 2745 32724 > > So total number of charcter if all filename is written on command line is > 32724. Now I create another file. > > $ touch test1/a > $ ls test1/* > bash: /bin/ls: Invalid argument > > ls does not work in this case. Is there any limitation on total number of > charcters in command line? How could we change it to higher limit? Yes, sometimes there is. Do you Google: ? The first few hits provide the relevant workarounds. > I am using cygwin 1.5.5.1 and fileutils-4.1-2. ^ Shouldn't this be 1.5.5-1? BTW, the latest version is 1.5.10-3. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/