>-----Original Message----- >From: Bob Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:56 >To: Browder, Tom >Cc: help-gnu-utils@gnu.org >Subject: Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar) >Browder, Tom wrote: >> Last week I started getting errors indicating there were too many >> files for the command (rm *, ls *, tar cvzf xfer.tgz *) to continue. ... >You are running into the kernel's ARG_MAX limitation. Please >see this reference for more information. ... >For your 'tar' case you can avoid the argument expansion >entirely simply by giving '.' as the argument. > > tar cvzf xfer.tgz .
Hm, when I try this the tgz archive gets sucked back into itself. -Tom
