On 07/12/2016 23:35, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 02:19 am, BartC wrote:
On 07/12/2016 14:34, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
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I don't know why you are so hung up over the number of characters here,
or this bogeyman of "one million files" in a directory.
Because /you/ brought it up as a reason why 'globbing' would help when
there are command limits?
I did?
I don't remember saying any such thing. Citation required.
In the part you snipped:
On 07/12/2016 05:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 December 2016 12:55, BartC wrote:
>
>> But even Linux's 128KB will fill [fail?] if someone wanted a command
line that
>> listed 20,000 files individually. But it would be spectacularly bad use
>> of a command line interface which was designed for humans.
>
> That's EXACTLY the point of having the shell do globbing.
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