Re: "ls -al * " not work

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:20:20PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:54:37 -0500,
> >   chloe K <chloekcy2000@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > My ls command not works  properly
> > > Are there many files problem?
> >
> > The argument list was limited to a modest number of files until recently.
> 
> i thought this was limited by a hard character limit in the shell, not
> just the number of arguments.

The limit was in the kernel, and was the total size, in bytes, of
arguments and environment.

The hard-coded limit was removed in recent kernels (2.6.23, IIRC), and
it should be limited by available memory now.

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