[CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"
Geoff Galitz
geoff at galitz.org
Fri Oct 17 10:48:16 UTC 2008
>> 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.
Are you sure you are comparing apples to apples? There is nothing
particularly Centos specific about this problem. I've seen it on a variety
of *NIX systems over the years, though I presume some distributions or UNIX
variants may have upped the buffer size.
Here is an interesting blog post which illustrates how you can get into this
kind trouble:
http://stevenroddis.com/2006/10/07/binrm-argument-list-too-long/index.html
-geoff
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