Re: problem with bash

[wayne <wayne at reliant dot immure dot com>]

Here is an example..

find . -type f |xargs ls

I came in late and this might not be a solution to your exact 
problem but it might at least help get you on the right path.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:29:27AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Claudio,
> 
> No, that's not a bug. It's just a (system-dependent) limit shared by all 
> POSIX-compliant systems. The actual limit happens to be on the low side 
> under Cygwin.
> 
> Familiarize yourself with the "xargs" command. It's there just to handle 
> these cases.
> 
> Also, in many cases the programs themselves process directories and don't 
> need to have each file within the directory passed to them as an argument. 
> Ls certainly does this (hence your "ls *" example has an equivalent without 
> limits: plain old "ls") and the grep family has a -R (recursive) option 
> that's related.
> 
> The reason you don't see the problem from a DOS command prompt is that 
> argument handling (in particular, wild-card processing) is different when 
> Cygwin programs are invoked from a DOS CMD.exe or Command.exe shell and 
> that difference effectively side-steps the limit you experience when 
> running under a Cygwin shell (BASH, zsh, tcsh, ash, etc.).
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
> 
> 
> At 01:59 2002-11-14, Claudio Tamietto wrote:
> >I have installed cigwin on my W2K PC and all is very well functioning .
> >However if i try some commands like ls * or grep -i -l some_text * from a
> >directory whit a lot of files (7-8 thousand) i obtain this error
> >
> >bash: /usr/bin/ls: Invalid argument
> >
> >Is it a bug ?
> >
> >If i try the same commands from a dos shell the error is not reported and 
> >all is functioning .
> 
> 
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