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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 08:33:45 -0800
From: "Todd Flinders" <Todd DOT Flinders AT doj DOT ca DOT gov>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Bug:  Wildcard problem with large number of files
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Hi:

I have a directory with a large number of files.  Using wildcards to look at the data in this directory causes me problems when using Cygwin.  This happens with several utilities such as ls, grep, cat, and more.  As an example I will use ls.

ls by itself (no wildcard) works fine, and I'll spare you the huge output.

flindet AT HQHDC-75VLR01 ~$ bash -version
bash -version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
flindet AT HQHDC-75VLR01 ~/IDNC data$ ls -l|wc -l
ls -l|wc -l
   2495
flindet AT HQHDC-75VLR01 ~/IDNC data$ ls *
ls *
bash: /usr/bin/ls: Invalid argument

I believe this is a bug either in bash or in Cygwin because this works fine with bash 2.03 on Solaris 8.  Sadly, I don't have a GNU/Linux box handy for testing.

bash-2.03$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
bash-2.03$ ls -l|wc -l
    2495
bash-2.03$ ls
[Outrageously long list of filenames here]

I know this problem has existed for at least several weeks.  I apologize for just now reporting it.  If I might provide more information to help, please let me know.  Thank you.


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