Re: Argument list too long: out of environment space

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> You actually show the solution to your problem.
> echo * | wc
> worked, right? So pass your list of files to your apps the same way,

bash-2.03$ echo * | wc
/bin 1 9569 279676
bash-2.03$ /bin/echo *
bash: /bin/echo: Argument list too long

echo is built into bash.

I don't really want to link my application with bash to get around this
problem! :-)

cheers
Stu

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