Hi Barry, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote on Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:43 AM: > While doing some other work, I've come to the impression that > this is not a fileutils problem. In a directory with ~1700 > htm files whose names take 37k,
<snip> > $ ls * > bash: /bin/ls.exe: Invalid argument > > There has been a big change my cygwin installation since last > week. I got a new box, upgrading from Win98SE to XP Pro. So > this is a new installation of cygwin, but other than this > line-length problem, everything seems to be working OK > (ignoring minor glitches probably due to various > configuration files getting lost in the transition). > > Although I could re-do my scripts to work around this problem > I'd appreciate any help in figuring out what is wrong with my cygwin > installation. You might have an unusual filename (e.g. starting with a dash) that is interpreted as argument. Try $ ls -- * This tells ls to interpret anything after the double dash as file argument and not as possible option! Regards, Jörg -- 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/
