On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:29:57AM -0900, N Nair wrote: > Folks: > > Is there a limit to the number of arguments that can be passed to > fileutils programs such as mv or rm ? If yes, is it filesystem > dependant/kernel config dependant/fileutils version dependant? Can this > maximum limit be tuned/controlled ? I googled on it a bit, but couldn't > find anything much more relevant than a message in the OS-X forum. > > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-admin/2002-December/027907.html > > Someone asked me this question in a linux-related forum and I > decided to experiment on my box ( RedHat 8.0 running vanilla kernel > 2.4.20; fileutils version 4.1.9 ) to find out what the current limit > was. I found that 12806 filenames can be passed to rm at a time without > generating the error shown in the subject line. (Took me about a dozen > tries to reach this figure.) > > Your comments would be extremely valuable. Yeah, but you can get around that by using a recursive utility like find, which will only pass one filename to rm at a time. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@attglobal.net) -- http://www.earlham.edu/~thompsk/
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