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From: Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls : fails with a long list
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:38:26 +0100
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| ~> ls -Al /usr/local/op/h/routines/[c-q]* | wc
| bash: /usr/bin/ls: Invalid argument
|       0       0       0

I think it is a bash-'problem', bash have only allocated X bytes as
command-line buffer and therefore throws up when too much info (it is
bash that converts the * to files) is squeezed into it.

How to fix it, don't have it on my mind now, but some way.. The
easiest might be do a cd /usr/local/op/h/routines and ls -Al from
there.. 

Or use find, and rotate through those files with a loop and do ls -Al
on them.. or split the ls -Al into two ls -Al's [a-n]* and [m-z]*

         /Andy

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