I have a directory that has grown quite large (over 2500 files). I regularly copy the files to a transfer directory, cd to that directory, and tar them and gzip them (tar cvzf xfer.tgz *) to take them to another site.
Last week I started getting errors indicating there were too many files for the command (rm *, ls *, tar cvzf xfer.tgz *) to continue. I was able to get the commands to work by reducing the file count down to about 1900. Is there a magic number limit on those commands? Or am I doing something wrong. I'm currently running linux on an Intel PC with a Fedora 7 distribution. Thanks. -Tom
