On 10/22/05, Warren Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you do something along the lines of <progname> *.CAD?
I don't think that that will help. Unlike Windows where programs are expected to expand file wildcards internally, *nix shells do that work for the program. The shell expands globs before it calls a command, so progname *.CAD gets expanded to: progname f1.CAD ... f300.CAD which will overflow any command buffer/argument count limit just as if you'd typed the arguments yourself. I've seen situations where ls * failed in a directory with a lot of files. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- 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/
