On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:49:02AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Jussi Hirvi wrote:
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen that in Fedora.
This issue is in Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, (put any other linux version you want here).
When you get too many files in a directory, you will receive this error. The same SOURCE code is compiled regardless of the "Distro".
As you have seen. there are many solutions to this problem ... HOWEVER, picking a new distro is not one of them
Most people never hit this limitation, but it is certainly possible and there in all versions of Linux.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere (probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for storing the comamndline.