Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 08:33:45 -0800 From: "Todd Flinders" To: Subject: Bug: Wildcard problem with large number of files Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hB9GZTQd008705 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. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication with its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/