On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 02:44, Steve Grazzini wrote: > 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).
So it's related to my ulimit open files? Currently it's set to 1024. Does that mean I'm limited to grepping an argument list that is less than 1024? Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
