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 -- 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! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/
