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 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:57:26 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long Message-ID: <20050822145726.GD1223@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4309D026.8000702@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4309D026.8000702@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:16:22AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Morten Kjarulff on 8/22/2005 6:56 AM: >>If I try to rm many files, or fewer files with long names I get "bash: >>/usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long". Can anyone tell the limits? > >The limits are pretty low if you are using Windows mechanisms, although >I don't know the exact limit (they can be increased by mounting /bin as >cygwin-executable, but even then still have limits). There will be some limits (especially with cygwin 1.5.18 - this is fixed in snapshots) but mounting the /bin and /usr/bin directories with -X should increase the command line length enormously over the Windows default of around 32K. cgf -- 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/