Am 28.01.2011 21:53, schrieb Harald Becker: > Hallo David! > >> I think I can tame this by suitable use of relative paths, but I'd still >> be interested to know > There is such a limit. Normal Unix shell has limits of 4 to16k ... and I > think busybox ash has limited this even further (got something like 1k > in my brain ... but don't know if this includes globbing). You really > need that xargs to do your job. >
If i remember correctly that limit is fallen in later linux kernels. but it is sensible not to overload commandline and use xargs or other. re, wh _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox