On Thu, 08 Jul 2004, Vinay Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > I am facing strange problem. I have a directory test1 in which there > are number of files. I am running following command and see some problem > here. > > $ ls test1/* | wc > 2745 2745 32724 > > So total number of charcter if all filename is written on command line is > 32724. Now I create another file. > > $ touch test1/a > $ ls test1/* > bash: /bin/ls: Invalid argument > > ls does not work in this case. Is there any limitation on total number of > charcters in command line? How could we change it to higher limit? > > I am using cygwin 1.5.5.1 and fileutils-4.1-2.
This is a unix question. $ ls -1 test1 | wc $ touch test1/a $ ls -1 test1 | wc You do not need the '/*' at the end of the ls. Mike -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/