Re: Argument list too long: out of environment space

From: Leos Bitto (leos@servers.globopolis.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 16:55:10 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Stuart Inglis wrote:

> I have 9600 files in a directory and have troubles processing them. I
> thought it was a bash problem but Chet Ramey kindly informed me that
> it's a Linux kernel limitation.

xargs is your friend -- kernel will always have some limit and
applications have to be prepared for it

Leos Bitto

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