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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:37:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Vinay Kumar <kvinay AT denver DOT india DOT mentorg DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ls could not list all files
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Vinay Kumar 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? How could we change it to higher limit?

Yes, sometimes there is.  Do you Google:
<http://google.com/search?q=cygwin+command+line+length+limit>?  The first
few hits provide the relevant workarounds.

> I am using cygwin 1.5.5.1 and fileutils-4.1-2.
                         ^
Shouldn't this be 1.5.5-1?  BTW, the latest version is 1.5.10-3.
	Igor
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