On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Eric Geoffroy
wrote:
> I had a working command until I ran into files whose paths exceeded the
> maximum for the shell (or socket).
Which shell, OS and file system are you using?
In Bash on my Ubuntu box with ext4 I can run the below with no problems.
It seems
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Eric Geoffroy
wrote:
> I had a working command until I ran into files whose paths exceeded the
> maximum for the shell (or socket).
>
> This works unless the paths exceed the max-
>
> cat '/Volumes/Cinera/SBO- Video/Python Videos/videofile_paths.txt' |
> parallel
Ole-
Cause of the long filename error was painful. The file with the paths was utf8
with linefeeds and had changed to carriage returns. Consequently it was sending
all of the paths as one ultra long string. Never happened before. Haven't
figure out how yet.
shell= 9780134745923 $ bash --versi
