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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting parameter list too long Post 72497 by reborg on Friday 20th of May 2005 05:34:31 PM
Old 05-20-2005
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Originally Posted by jerardfjay
Jim,

That works fine, Thanks. But I was trying to find out why passing a parameter to the ls command with a wildcard returns the error message that the paramter list being too long. Is this a shortfall with shell or is it a shortfall of 'ls'. Either way what should be done to overcome this error for the ls command? Smilie Jerardfjay

It is because the shell expands the *.Z to the list of files which match, basically what you are doing is the same as:

ls -lrt file1.Z file2.Z file3.Z...fileN.Z

so if you have 20,000 .Z files you have supplied ls with 20,000 files in the list.
 

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atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
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