ls could not list all files

[Vinay Kumar <kvinay at denver dot india dot mentorg dot com>]

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?

I am using cygwin 1.5.5.1 and fileutils-4.1-2.

regards
Vinay


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