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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:27:43 -0400
To: Vinay Kumar <kvinay AT denver DOT india DOT mentorg DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls could not list all files
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At 04:50 PM 7/8/2004, you wrote:
>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? 


Yes.  There always is.  And you just hit it.


>How could we change it to higher limit?


'man xargs'



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