David,
Thanks for the rapid reply & assistance. Here are the results;
BTW: I do dislike Windows & Outlook, but everything is setup for my wife
since I am gone much of the time.Format (MM.DD.YY for sanity sake,
otherwise, no problem).
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.01.01/* | wc -l 5935
ls -1 /ho
Please read the Coreutils FAQ, it describes your problem in detail [1].
Argument list too long
I tried to move about 5000 files with mv, but it said:
bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
The UNIX operating system traditionally has a fixed limit for the amount of memory
that can be used for
I just saw this recently but don't remember the specifics: when you
get "argument list too long" it's actually a shell problem and not
a problem with cp (or any other program). Perhaps someone else on
the list can chime in.
Wrong wrong wrong. Stop blameing the shell and blame silly o
Alfred, et al --
...and then Alfred M. Szmidt said...
%
%I just saw this recently but don't remember the specifics: when you
%get "argument list too long" it's actually a shell problem and not
%a problem with cp (or any other program). Perhaps someone else on
%the list can chime
Alfred --
...and then Alfred M. Szmidt said...
%
% Please read the Coreutils FAQ, it describes your problem in detail [1].
%
% Argument list too long
There's a very interesting wrinkle here, though... As he has posted, he
actually has fewer files in the .05 directory than he has in the .01
dir
For the latest Win32 port of fileutils,
for the 'ls' directory list command, there is an option for color
output 'ls --color'. The defaults for this are green for
executables, red for compressions, and blue for directory. There is an
environment variable LS_COLORS that can be changed to mo
