Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:33:18 +1300 | From | Stuart Inglis <> | Subject | Argument list too long: out of environment space |
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Hi all,
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.
bash-2.03$ cd tttt/ bash-2.03$ echo * | wc 1 9569 279676 bash-2.03$ getconf ARG_MAX 131072 bash-2.03$ grep hello * bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long bash-2.03$ sort * bash: /bin/sort: Argument list too long bash-2.03$
Why is this limit so small? There are only 9600 files taking a total of less than 300k to specify all of the names. The machine has 100's of Mb of RAM. Is it easy to change/fix?
cheers Stuart
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