I do ls -l ABC*, I get arg list too long message. This will not happen if ABC* has small no of files I believe 4000 files is limit. Any way of avoiding this.
I even tried like this
for i in `ls -l ABC*`
do
echo $i
done
Same problem.
Any solution would be great.
I am on HP-UX... (5 Replies)
hi everyone,
We have a heck of a lot of files in a particular directory and I need to search through all of them to find a list of all files containing particular text strings...one being a date and the other being the name of the report that is printed on the files.....
I've tried the... (6 Replies)
Hi all
I have more than 1000 files in a folder and when ever i use a "compress" or "zcat" command it give error
/bin/zcat: Arg list too long. .
any solution for this :o (3 Replies)
echo dirname/filename* | xargs ls -t
As a substitute doesn't give the results desired when I exceed the buffer size. I still want the files listed in chronological order, unfortunately xargs releases the names piecemeal...does anyone have any ideas? :( (4 Replies)
hello all
i need some help because i am a unix/linux dummy...i have the following:
DIR1> has 121437 files in it with varying dates going back to early April,
a sub dir DIR1/DIR2> has 55835 files in it
I need to move all files (T*.*) out of DIR1 into DIR2 that are older than today?
Ive been... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to perform this task:
tar -cvf tar.newfile ??????.bas
I got error "arg list too long". Is ther any way around? I have about 1500 file need to be tar together.
Thanks in advance (5 Replies)
Hi,
Help. I have a file that contains a list of users in a file. I want to cat the content of the file and feed it into sed to a preformated report. The error I got is "ksh: /usr/bin/sed: arg list too long" My method below.
A=`cat FILE1.txt`
B=`echo $A`
sed "s#USERLIST#$B#" FILE2 >... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to search through 30,000 files in 1 directory, and am getting the "arg list too long" error. I've searched this forum and have been playing around with xargs and can't get that to work either. I'm using ksh on Solaris.
Here's my original code:
nawk "/Nov 21/{_=2}_&&_--"... (14 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to find a file name with .sh exention from a list of .dat files inside a directory.
find /app/folder1/* -name '*.dat'| xargs grep '.sh'
ksh: /usr/local/bin/find: arg list too long
Please help me finding the command.
Thanks (3 Replies)
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sum
sum(1) General Commands Manual sum(1)NAME
sum - print checksum and block or byte count of file(s)
SYNOPSIS
[file ...]
Remarks
is obsolescent and should not be used in new applications that are intended to be portable between systems. Use instead (see cksum(1)).
DESCRIPTION
calculates and prints to standard output a checksum for each named file, and also prints the size of the file in 512 byte blocks, rounded
up.
The default algorithm is a 16-bit sum of the bytes in which overflow is ignored. Alternate algorithms can be selected with the and
options.
Standard input is used if no file names are given.
is typically used to verify data integrity when copying files between systems.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Use an alternate algorithm in which the 16-bit sum is right rotated
with each byte in computing the checksum.
Use the 32-bit cyclical redundancy check (CRC) algorithm used by
RETURN VALUE
returns the following values upon completion:
All files were processed successfully.
One or more files could not be read or some other error occurred.
If an inaccessible file is encountered, continues processing any remaining files, but the final exit status is affected.
DIAGNOSTICS
Read error conditions are indistinguishable from end of file on most devices; check the block or byte count.
WARNINGS
This command is likely to be withdrawn from X/Open standards. Applications using this command might not be portable to other vendors'
platforms. The usage of cksum(1) is recommended.
SEE ALSO cksum(1), wc(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE sum(1)