On 09/15/2010 09:02 AM, Elisabet Wahlgren wrote:
Hi Guys, Greatly surprised (and not very happy) that my attempts to list or move files satisfying a file name pattern (like ls *.tgz for example) fail miserably on my linux machine, when the number of files satisfying the pattern is large. Error message example: "/bin/mv: Argument list too long". Is this a bug or a feature, would you know?
Feature of your OS, and a FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long
I used to work with a Unix version (Solaris) quite a number of years (decades) and cannot remember having seen this limitation before.
Solaris has the same problem - it's just that you never presented it with enough data to reach the limit.
-- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
