Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:47:15 +1300 | | From | Stuart Inglis <> | | Subject | Re: Argument list too long: out of environment space |
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> It's the length of the command line. What you are doing when you expand > the wildcards is to put every filename on the command-line. I don't > think this is what you want to do. If it is what you want to do, then > well,... I don't think anybody can help.
!! Surely you jest :-)
Usually I get around problems like this by passing `echo *` into head or tail +N etc. xargs isn't an option due to the massive startup times of our custom commands.
This is actually a small example... we often have more files than this :-)
There must be a nasty limit somewhere... I just want to be able to increase it. Or even better, to make it dynamically adjust while we've got lots of memory.
cheers Stu
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