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AW: [mailinglist] ls could not list all files
- From: "Uwe Schmitt" <schmitt at num dot uni-sb dot de>
- To: "Vinay Kumar" <kvinay at denver dot india dot mentorg dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:30:11 +0200
- Subject: AW: [mailinglist] ls could not list all files
Hi,
maybe there is a file like "-xxx" in the directory, which will be
interpreted as an argument to ls.
Try the following:
for U in *; do echo $U; ls $U || break; done
The loop should stop at the file making problems and above the
error statement you should see the according filename.
Greetings, Uwe
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> Von: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]Im Auftrag
> von Vinay Kumar
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2004 22:50
> An: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Betreff: [mailinglist] ls could not list all files
>
>
> Dear all,
> I am facing strange problem. I have a directory test1 in which there
> are number of files. I am running following command and see some problem
> here.
>
> $ ls test1/* | wc
> 2745 2745 32724
>
> So total number of charcter if all filename is written on command line is
> 32724. Now I create another file.
>
> $ touch test1/a
> $ ls test1/*
> bash: /bin/ls: Invalid argument
>
> ls does not work in this case. Is there any limitation on total number of
> charcters in command line? How could we change it to higher limit?
>
> I am using cygwin 1.5.5.1 and fileutils-4.1-2.
>
> regards
> Vinay
>
>
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