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Re: long command lines
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: long command lines
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:58:14 -0500
- References: <3A70B734.A18289E@nuance.com> <uyg0i7p2jo.fsf@tcsi.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:42:03PM -0800, David M. Karr wrote:
>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Schuster <schuster@nuance.com> writes:
> Mike> Problem: I couldn't figure out how to get very long command line
> Mike> arguments to work (~32k) (for example 'ls */*/*/*', if you have a lot of
> Mike> files on the disk).
>
> Mike> Question: Does anybody know if this
> Mike> a) a Windows problem,
> Mike> b) a cygwin problem,
> Mike> c) something that can easily be fixed by setting some parameter
> Mike> (Which?).
>
>Before, when I only worked on Unix (with Ksh, NOT Csh), I used to use
>command lines like this all the time:
>
> somecmd $(find . -type f)
>
>When I started needing to do similar things on Cygwin, I discovered
>the line length problem, and concluded there was no "fix" for it.
I assume that you concluded this from an exhaustive study of the
source code.
cgf
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