Seems like this is asked about often enough to be in the FAQ. At Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:09 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: > >> At 10:26 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote: >>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: >>> >>>> I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files >>>> with about 80K characters. >>>> >>>> I get the following >>>> >>>> bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long >>>> >>>> If I reduce the total characters to less then 32K it works fine. >>>> This list is a list of the source files in a development tree >>>> retrieved with find. >>> >>> a) wrong list. >> >> And what was the right list? > > See <http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists>. I redirected it > to the right list and set the Reply-To accordingly. I also did so > for this message - please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To > header. > >>> b) try "xargs". >> >> mounting per your instructions fixed the problem. > > Good. However, "xargs" is the generally used solution for this > anyway -- and it's also faster since it doesn't have to build up and > then parse the argument list string. > >>>> I just updated to see if this announcement, >>>> >>>> Updated: findutils-4.2.10-5, >>>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00207.html would >>>> fix it, but it does not appear to do so. >>> >>> c) why would findutils fix a problem with grep? >>> >>>> I know this is not a problem under linux, and I don't remember it >>>> being a problem in earlier versions of cygwin. Is this a feature >>>> or a bug? If it is a bug, despite reading abut reporting bugs on >>>> the cygwin web site I still am totally uncertain about how one >>>> would report this bug. Guidance here would be appreciated. >>> >>> d) CGF suggested >>> "mount -X c:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin; mount -X c:\cygwin\bin /bin" >>> Don't know how well it'll work, but it's worth a try. >> >> What is CGF? > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CGF>. > >>> Oh, and please review <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. >> >> I did, before and after, I it got me to here, as possibly the least >> obnoxious thing I could do. > > By "here" do you mean the cygwin-talk list? And where, pray tell, is > the cygwin-talk list mentioned on that page? Or do you mean the > "lists.html" link that mentions cygwin-talk as the list where you > could be ridiculed for asking just about anything? BTW, the "main > cygwin list" that it refers to is <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, which, > incidentally, is the list I redirected your question to. > HTH, > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total > Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
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