many files

[Randall R Schulz]

Roman,

You've come up against a limit that Unix and Unix-like systems, 
including Cygwin, impose on the total amount of command argument data 
that can be passed.

You should learn about the xargs command as one tool for dealing with 
this restriction. It is found in all Unix-like systems.

In this particular case, you could use something like this to count the 
number of files whose names end in log (did you mean ".log"?):

ls |grep 'log$' |wc -l


Randall Schulz


At 05:51 2003-05-19, sladek.roman@ct.cz wrote:
>I can't use ls *log command in directory where is stored many files.
>I have this script for simulate my problem:
>#
>POCET=0
>while [ $POCET -ne 840 ]
>do
>POCET=`expr $POCET + 1`
>echo "file nr.$POCET"
>touch Split1.$POCET.INCA_SENTRALOMRADE__.cif.log
>ls *log|wc -l
>done
>
>results is here:
>file nr.1
>1
>.....etc. ...
>file nr.820
>820
>file nr.822
>./a.sh: ls: error 22
>0
>also from
>bash$ ls *log
>bash: /usr/bin/ls: Invalid argument
>but:
>bash$ ls
>work fine, where is problem?
>my cygwin version is 1.3.22(0.78/3/2)


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