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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:26:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk AT cygwin DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Argument list too long
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote:

> I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files with
> about 80K characters.
>
> I get the following
>
> bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long
>
> If I reduce the total characters to less then 32K it works fine.  This
> list is a list of the source files in a development tree retrieved with
> find.

a) wrong list.
b) try "xargs".

> I just updated to see if this announcement,
>
> Updated: findutils-4.2.10-5,
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00207.html would fix it,
> but it does not appear to do so.

c) why would findutils fix a problem with grep?

> I know this is not a problem under linux, and I don't remember it being
> a problem in earlier versions of cygwin.  Is this a feature or a bug?
> If it is a bug, despite reading abut reporting bugs on the cygwin web
> site I still am totally uncertain about how one would report this bug.
> Guidance here would be appreciated.

d) CGF suggested
   "mount -X c:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin; mount -X c:\cygwin\bin /bin"
   Don't know how well it'll work, but it's worth a try.

Oh, and please review <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
	Igor
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