Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:58:57 -0500 | | From | Donald Sharp <> | | Subject | Re: Argument list too long: out of environment space |
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find . -print | xargs grep hello I am sure there are better ways to do this with find as well.
donald On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:33:18AM +1300, Stuart Inglis wrote: > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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