There is a limit in bash (and the operating system) to the number of
arguments you can use. Run getconf ARG_MAX to see what it is. You'll
have to limit the number of files you're processing to that number or go
hacking around to increase the limit, which I don't recommend.
Joel
Greg Brown wrote:
Ugh. I have a Axis webcam doing motion detection to watch the dogs at
home. I have been creating mpg movies using the following command:
convert *.jpg -delay 10 date.mpg
But before I use the convert command I copy the files to /tmp/date.
When I try to copy the files I get a "Argument list too long" error
and nothing is copied. If I try to run the convert commany directly
from the directly where my Axis camera dumps them I get the same
error: Argument list too long.
I got crafty and did a 'for i in *jpg; cp $i /tmp/date ; done' and
that worked - but the convert still failed.
Any ideas here? I'm out of them. And google is no help, at least in
the middle of the night.
*yawn*
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