From: wayne <wayne@reliant.immure.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: problem with bash
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021114130531.A37275@reliant.immure.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DD3F26D.8000609@Salira.com>; from ADeFaria@Salira.com on Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:58:53AM -0800
You do if you an argument list that is to large. try using just
ls with 7000 files and see what happens. :-)
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:58:53AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > Well, if you really want something equivalent to 'ls *', you'd need to
> > do something like
> >
> > find . -maxdepth 1 \( -name .\* -o -print \) | xargs ls
> >
> > The "-maxdepth 1" is to not descend recursively into directories, and
> > the "-name .\*" is to avoid listing hidden files/directories (which
> > would not be matched by the '*' glob). The "-type f" is actually
> > wrong, as '*' will match directories as well.
> >
> > Also beware that ls may be an alias, and xargs will run the actual
> > executable in the path...
>
> Huh?!? Just type ls! You don't need anything else and certainly not
> something as complicated as what you propose.
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-14 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-14 3:15 Claudio Tamietto
2002-11-14 8:53 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-11-14 9:00 ` wayne
2002-11-14 9:48 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-11-14 10:01 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-11-14 10:24 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-11-14 11:22 ` Andrew DeFaria
2002-11-14 11:25 ` wayne [this message]
2002-11-14 11:49 ` Randall R Schulz
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2015-06-30 11:06 Problem " Volker Hohmann (priv.)
2015-06-30 16:53 ` Achim Gratz
2002-11-14 9:50 problem " Claudio Tamietto
1997-11-07 14:15 Problem " Earnie Boyd
1997-11-07 9:20 Michael M. Schmitz
1997-11-08 13:48 ` Michael Hirmke
1997-11-12 1:43 ` Daniel Roche
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