On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:16:22AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Morten Kjarulff on 8/22/2005 6:56 AM: >>If I try to rm many files, or fewer files with long names I get "bash: >>/usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long". Can anyone tell the limits? > >The limits are pretty low if you are using Windows mechanisms, although >I don't know the exact limit (they can be increased by mounting /bin as >cygwin-executable, but even then still have limits).
There will be some limits (especially with cygwin 1.5.18 - this is fixed in snapshots) but mounting the /bin and /usr/bin directories with -X should increase the command line length enormously over the Windows default of around 32K. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
