xargs is your friend. Shane O.
On 7/25/05, Joel Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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* > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Shane O. ======== Shane O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================== -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
