I couldn't find what I thought I recalled as a similar posting. In my Makefile I have a command to remove a directory of files. I get a complaint that there are too many files to remove (about 1000). How do I change the default for increasing the number of listed/open files?
You don't.
cygwin is not better that most other POSIX system, even if it's on MS Windows. This limitation is based on the maximum length of arguments for a new process, usually getconf ARG_MAX
>The maximum is depending on the system/kernel and ranging >from 4096 bytes (POSIX) to about a megabyte on some systems. >On some systems, you're more likely to run into this limit, >e.g., HP-UX 10 and IRIX 6 (20478 bytes) or AIX 4 (24576 bytes).
On unix you would do it with xargs for example, or find -exec rm \{\},
on cygwin also.$ man xargs $ ls --color=none|xargs /bin/rm
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