ls could not list all files
Larry Hall
cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 8 14:34:00 GMT 2004
At 04:50 PM 7/8/2004, you wrote:
>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?
Yes. There always is. And you just hit it.
>How could we change it to higher limit?
'man xargs'
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