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Re: long command lines
- To: Mike Schuster <schuster at nuance dot com>
- Subject: Re: long command lines
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:41:47 -0500
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <3A70B734.A18289E@nuance.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Mike Schuster wrote:
>
> Problem: I couldn't figure out how to get very long command line
> arguments to work (~32k) (for example 'ls */*/*/*', if you have a lot of
> files on the disk).
>
> Question: Does anybody know if this
> a) a Windows problem,
> b) a cygwin problem,
> c) something that can easily be fixed by setting some parameter
> (Which?).
>
> Thanks a lot for any help.
>
Well, most systems have a command line limit. Check out `man xargs'.
However, xargs may have limits also.
Earnie.
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