On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:56:42AM -0700, Tyler Regas wrote:
...
>Yes, but is that a limitation of the shell or is it a limitation of ls? The
>DOS limitation resides in the command environment itself. It might even be a
>sort of throttle for ls that limits incoming args to prevent swamping the
>system. That lline of yours would certainly do it :)
Actually I think it's a kernel limit on the maximum size of
command line and environment space. SCO OpenServer used to be
limited to about 5000 characters, but made this a configurable
parameter several years ago.
See the man pages for ``xargs'' for information on ways to deal
with huge numbers of arguments. As an example to find all the
files containing some pattern this will work on most *ix boxes:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l pattern
Bill
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