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From: "Uwe Schmitt" <schmitt AT num DOT uni-sb DOT de>
To: "Vinay Kumar" <kvinay AT denver DOT india DOT mentorg DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: AW: [mailinglist] ls could not list all files
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:30:11 +0200
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Hi,

maybe there is a file like "-xxx" in the directory, which will be
interpreted as an argument to ls.
Try the following:

for U in *; do echo $U; ls $U || break; done

The loop should stop at the file making problems and above the
error statement you should see the according filename.

Greetings, Uwe

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]Im Auftrag
> von Vinay Kumar
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2004 22:50
> An: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Betreff: [mailinglist] ls could not list all files
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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