Argument list too long
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 1 20:05:12 UTC 2007
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
> Question: at what point would commands such as 'ls', 'cp' and others
> consider the argument list too long? The reason I'm asking is because
> I'm getting random results here. One time 'ls' would tell it the
> argument list is too long when the file count in the folder reached
> around 2,000 files. Another, like this morning, it let me go all the
> way to 2,600+ before complaining. And just now it reached 1,900 files
> and already 'ls' is complaining. That seems random to me. Is there a
> set number that causes all of these commands to fail with 'Argument list
> too long' or what convoluted algorithm is used to figure it out?
See http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long
Rahul
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