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. > I am not seeing this in cases where I used to on the 2.6.23 kernel. > There is still a limit, but it is significantly larger than it was > in the past. So you might still see the problem with 2.6.23 kernels, > but I wouldn't expect it to happen in typical use. > > > > > [host]# ls -al |wc -l > > 55264 > > > > [host]# ls -al *.db |more > > -bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long > > > > [host]# ls -al * > > -bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long > > [host]# ls -al *.* > > -bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long seems easy enough to find out how hard you can push this: $ ls -l $(seq 1 100000) 2>&1 | tail -2 ls: cannot access 99999: No such file or directory ls: cannot access 100000: No such file or directory $ ls -l $(seq 1 1000000) 2>&1 | tail -2 bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long bisect as necessary. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
