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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Todd Flinders wrote: > I have a directory with a large number of files. Using wildcards to > look at the data in this directory causes me problems when using Cygwin. > This happens with several utilities such as ls, grep, cat, and more. As > an example I will use ls. > > ls by itself (no wildcard) works fine, and I'll spare you the huge output. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/IDNC data$ ls -l|wc -l > ls -l|wc -l > 2495 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/IDNC data$ ls * > ls * > bash: /usr/bin/ls: Invalid argument > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01607.html > I believe this is a bug either in bash or in Cygwin because this works > fine with bash 2.03 on Solaris 8. Sadly, I don't have a GNU/Linux box > handy for testing. > Nope, neither. A system limit. > bash-2.03$ bash -version > GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris) > Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > bash-2.03$ ls -l|wc -l > 2495 > bash-2.03$ ls > [Outrageously long list of filenames here] > I think you meant "ls *" here? -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- 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/
