Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Thu, Jun 20, 2002, Taegil Noh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> you will just see the wild card characters cannot
> process every names. (try ls *.txt, in a directory
> that holds more than 20thousand files of .txt)
> It gives some error on my Bash, months ago.
> 
> In shorts, Shells don't like long long list of
> files.

    $ man xargs.

Peace.

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