On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:21:57PM -0400, Kevin Old wrote: > Are you sure about using ls? We have directory here that has several > thousand files in it and when doing an ls *.whatever-extension we always > get an "argument list too long". > > Any idea what the actual file limit is for grep?
It's a system limit (not specific to grep) based on the size-in-bytes of the argument list (not the number of items). -- Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
