12-07-2007
Wildcard arguments to a command may be expanded by the shell before the command executes - this is globbing.
If this happens, like ls * instead of ls, then the problem is the max size of arguments in bytes to an exec - something listed as ARG_MAX in limits.h. Note: _POSIX_ARG_MAX (4096) is what POSIX says to use, not what your system implmentation supports. ARG_MAX is usually way larger then 4096. And is the one that counts.
You could easily bump into ARG_MAX problems with a huge directory with longer filenames, as well.
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