Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bob,

* Bob Proulx wrote on Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:55:35PM CEST:
> You are running into the kernel's ARG_MAX limitation.  Please see this
> reference for more information.
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long

AFAIK this limitation has been lifted in Linux 2.6.23.  That FAQ could
be updated for this.  On my 2.6.24, the non-limit isn't shown:

$ getconf ARG_MAX
131072

but apparently it doesn't exist any more:

$ cd /usr/lib; /bin/echo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * | wc
      1   60950 1056000

Cheers,
Ralf