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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
