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. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 ------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081024/de4d4ef1/attachment-0005.sig>