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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Error when using certain directory path Post 302779131 by radoulov on Tuesday 12th of March 2013 08:09:37 AM
Old 03-12-2013
It's because of the ARG_MAX limit of your system.
With bash, I would write something like this:

Code:
unset files
shopt -s nullglob
until (( ${#files[@]} )); do
  files=( "$indir"/ITC*.zip )
  printf 'no files in %s\n' "$indir"
  sleep 60
done
shopt -u nullglob
# unset files if you do not need the filenames

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