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 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:50:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Vinay Kumar To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: ls could not list all files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear all, I am facing strange problem. I have a directory test1 in which there are number of files. I am running following command and see some problem here. $ ls test1/* | wc 2745 2745 32724 So total number of charcter if all filename is written on command line is 32724. Now I create another file. $ touch test1/a $ ls test1/* bash: /bin/ls: Invalid argument ls does not work in this case. Is there any limitation on total number of charcters in command line? How could we change it to higher limit? I am using cygwin 1.5.5.1 and fileutils-4.1-2. regards Vinay -- 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/