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Re: E2BIG/EINVAL (was: wildcard expansion once more)
- To: cbugel at netvision dot net dot il, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: E2BIG/EINVAL (was: wildcard expansion once more)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 06:55:38 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Christoph Bugel <christophbugel@yahoo.com> wrote:
-8<-
>
> echo big/*
> (this one works -- echo is shell builtin)
>
> /bin/echo big/*
> bash: /bin/echo: Argument list too long
>
> ls big/*
> bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
>
So, what needs to happen is echo and ls need modified to handle unlimited
arguments. Patches for these and other applications will be considered at
cygwin-apps@sourceware.cygnus.com.
Cheers,
=====
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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