At 11:33 AM 12/9/2003, Todd Flinders you wrote: >Hi: > >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] ~$ bash -version >bash -version >GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) >Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >[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 > >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. > >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 know this problem has existed for at least several weeks. I apologize for just now >reporting it. If I might provide more information to help, please let me know. >Thank you.
Nope. This isn't a bug. It may be a FAQ but it's not a bug. Every system has a limit on line length. See 'man xargs' for help getting around this. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
