On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:46:42PM +0900, Taegil Noh wrote: | File System is one matter, and shell environment is another. | While ext2/3 and resistfs will surely contain more than | million files in a directory, (or anywhere anyhow) | Many shells like bash and csh won't process them | cleary.
What happens is that the shell tries to expand the wildcard, and that
expansion exceeds the limit on length of a command line. If you have
a thousand files with only 2 characters in their name, that would
yield a 3k command line, which I think is within the limit (but
haven't tested). I think that limit is a kernel one because bash
(cygwin) on windows gets cut off MUCH earlier than bash on linux does.
I discovered that while using `find . <...>` in the build process of
a certain library.
| Keep it short list. by the way, wasn't that what the
| concepts of 'directory' was for? :]
Directories are namespaces. I don't think they were invented to keep
the file list short, just to prevent polluting a single global
namespace :-). (I could be wrong, though)
-D
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