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bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX
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Eric Blake |
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bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX |
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Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:50:38 -0600 |
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On 09/15/2010 09:02 AM, Elisabet Wahlgren wrote:
Hi Guys,
Greatly surprised (and not very happy) that my attempts to list or move files satisfying
a file name pattern (like ls *.tgz for example) fail miserably on my linux machine, when
the number of files satisfying the pattern is large. Error message example:
"/bin/mv: Argument list too long". Is this a bug or a feature, would you know?
Feature of your OS, and a FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long
I used to work with a Unix version (Solaris) quite a number of years (decades)
and cannot remember having seen this limitation before.
Solaris has the same problem - it's just that you never presented it
with enough data to reach the limit.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
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