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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:26:16 -0800
From: Jon Ericson <Jonathan DOT L DOT Ericson AT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov>
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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?).

You should be using some combination of find and/or xargs rather than
wildcard expansion.  For instance, "find .".  This is a general shell
issue not limited to either Windows or cygwin.  

Jon
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