Juha Saarinen wrote: > Currently, ARG_MAX is set to: > > $ getconf ARG_MAX > 65536 > > in syslimits.h. This is quite low compared to other OS (SunOS has 1MB > IIRC, and OpenBSD 3.5 256K) and causes the "argument list too long" > issues when for instance grep'ing in directories with lots of files. And AIX has 24k ;) You may use a combination of ls|find+xargs for grepping many files... -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/Received on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 17:46:13 UTC
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