Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:14:55 +0200 (EET) | From | Sergey Kubushin <> | Subject | Re: Argument list too long: out of environment space |
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Leos Bitto wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Stuart Inglis wrote: > > > 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. > > xargs is your friend -- kernel will always have some limit and > applications have to be prepared for it
It does NOT work with newer kernels too :(( One have to change, e.g. the kernel's Makefile in order to get "make clean" working (it does use xargs which fails).
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