On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:49:02AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > >> piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details. > > > > Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence. > > > > A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen > > that in Fedora. > > This issue is in Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, (put any other linux > version you want here). > > When you get too many files in a directory, you will receive this error. > The same SOURCE code is compiled regardless of the "Distro". > > As you have seen. there are many solutions to this problem ... HOWEVER, > picking a new distro is not one of them > > Most people never hit this limitation, but it is certainly possible and > there in all versions of Linux. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes >
I've always understood it to be an issue with commandline length: somewhere
(probably in bash) there's a limit on how big a buffer is/can be used for
storing the comamndline.
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