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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting "Argument list too long" error Post 302450099 by mario8eren on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 03:35:27 PM
Old 09-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Yes - but it is the length of the FULL pathname including your directoryname, e.g.,
/path/to/my/list/of/files/./A285-B285-C285-D285-E285-F285-G285-H285
that the system is complaining about.

Code:
grep PATH_MAX /uysr/include/limits.h

will tell you the limit of the number of characters in a fully qualified pathname. Start with that to check your filename problems.
Thank you very much. I tried it, but it didn't find "PATH_MAX" in the file. So I just tried "MAX". I hoped there is an equivalent keyword there, but I didn't find anything I could relate to pathname. I copy the results here, maybe you might notice it:

Code:
mario8@slater (~) >grep PATH_MAX /usr/include/limits.h
mario8@slater (~) >grep MAX /usr/include/limits.h
#define MB_LEN_MAX      16
#  define SCHAR_MAX     127
#  define UCHAR_MAX     255
#   define CHAR_MAX     UCHAR_MAX
#   define CHAR_MAX     SCHAR_MAX
#  define SHRT_MAX      32767
#  define USHRT_MAX     65535
#  define INT_MIN       (-INT_MAX - 1)
#  define INT_MAX       2147483647
#  define UINT_MAX      4294967295U
#   define LONG_MAX     9223372036854775807L
#   define LONG_MAX     2147483647L
#  define LONG_MIN      (-LONG_MAX - 1L)
#   define ULONG_MAX    18446744073709551615UL
#   define ULONG_MAX    4294967295UL
#   define LLONG_MAX    9223372036854775807LL
#   define LLONG_MIN    (-LLONG_MAX - 1LL)
#   define ULLONG_MAX   18446744073709551615ULL
   LLONG_MAX, and ULLONG_MAX.  Instead only the values gcc defined for
#  ifndef LLONG_MAX
#   define LLONG_MAX    LONG_LONG_MAX
#  ifndef ULLONG_MAX
#   define ULLONG_MAX   ULONG_LONG_MAX

Thank you in advance,

Mario

Edit: Maybe I should shorten the script by deleting the letters and only leave the degrees (numbers) in the folder names, since I analyze the results later with another sript and due to that I don't need the letters so badly?
Last edited by mario8eren; 09-01-2010 at 04:39 PM.. Reason: An idea.
 

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times

times(1)							   User Commands							  times(1)

NAME

       times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       times

   ksh
       times

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.

   ksh
       Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.

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ATTRIBUTES

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SEE ALSO

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