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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 22:59:22 +0100
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/ <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> wrote:
|>> Got two words for you: 'find' and 'xargs'... ;-)
|
| Thank you. I guess I phrased myself badly. I wasn't saying "How do I do
| this?" (I think ls -AlR gives me pretty well what I was after). I was saying
| "Once I could do this. Now I can't. Does anybody know if anything has
| altered recently? and can anybody explain the phenomenon?" Anyway, it seems
| from an earlier response to be something bash-related, so I imagine for the
| moment I am stuck with it. Thanks again. Fergus

Well it is related to the shell yes. Limitation of the length of the
prompt the shell can handle. (I think ;-))

More and more files coming into the subdir, or the contents are
static?  Or hmm, could be a compilation switch to the compilation of
bash, but wouldn't think so..

            /Andy

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