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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:52:15 -0600 (CST)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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To: Todd Flinders <Todd DOT Flinders AT doj DOT ca DOT gov>
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Subject: Re: Bug:  Wildcard problem with large number of files
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Todd Flinders wrote:

> 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 ~/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
>
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01607.html

> 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.
>
Nope, neither.  A system limit.

> 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 think you meant "ls *" here?

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