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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:41:47 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Mike Schuster <schuster AT nuance DOT com>
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Subject: Re: long command lines
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Mike Schuster wrote:
> 
> Problem: I couldn't figure out how to get very long command line
> arguments to work (~32k) (for example 'ls */*/*/*', if you have a lot of
> files on the disk).
> 
> Question: Does anybody know if this
>   a) a Windows problem,
>   b) a cygwin problem,
>   c) something that can easily be fixed by setting some parameter
> (Which?).
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help.
> 

Well, most systems have a command line limit.  Check out `man xargs'. 
However, xargs may have limits also.

Earnie.

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