On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:49:02AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>
> >> piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.
> >
> > Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
> >
> > A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen
> > that in Fedora.
>
> This issue is in Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, (put any other linux
> version you want here).
>
> When you get too many files in a directory, you will receive this error.
> The same SOURCE code is compiled regardless of the "Distro".
>
> As you have seen. there are many solutions to this problem ... HOWEVER,
> picking a new distro is not one of them
>
> Most people never hit this limitation, but it is certainly possible and
> there in all versions of Linux.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere
(probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for
storing the comamndline.
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