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According to Long, Phillip GOSS on 12/3/2006 8:48 PM:
> What is SHELL set to in your environment? If it's not set to /bin/bash,
> it's may be defaulting to CMD.EXE, which has a line-length limitation,
> whereas bash (and I'm guessing most other shells
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> From: Michael Eager
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:30 PM
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: Argument list too long
>
> I get the error message "argument list too long"
> while building GCC on certain Cgywin installations, but not all. Th
I get the error message "argument list too long"
while building GCC on certain Cgywin installations,
but not all. This happens when make executes a
command with a large number of arguments. I'm
assuming that this is because I'm running out of
environment space.
Some of t
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According to Christopher Faylor on 9/5/2005 9:23 AM:
> I used to compile findutils with -DARG_MAX=15 on the gcc command
> line to work around this problem. Undoubtedly there is a better way to
> do this, but maybe this is a hint as to what's wrong
> xargs: md5sum: Argument list too long
> I used to compile findutils with -DARG_MAX=15 on the gcc command
> line to work around this problem. Undoubtedly there is a better way to
> do this, but maybe this is a hint as to what's wrong.
I'll take a look at it. I
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:46:05AM +0100, fergus wrote:
>Just updated xargs from v.4.2.11-cvs to v.4.2.25 with installation of latest
>findutils and I now find that
> cat filelist | xargs md5sum
>where filelist is a mere 1723 items long, now fails with
> xargs: md5sum
Just updated xargs from v.4.2.11-cvs to v.4.2.25 with installation of latest
findutils and I now find that
cat filelist | xargs md5sum
where filelist is a mere 1723 items long, now fails with
xargs: md5sum: Argument list too long
This did not happen with the previous version of
On Aug 22 17:46, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > 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
> > defa
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
The MSDN docs for the lpComman
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 l
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According to Morten Kjarulff on 8/22/2005 6:56 AM:
> Hi,
>
> 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 prett
Hi,
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?
Is the solution something like "for file in * ; do rm $file ; done"?
/Morten
The directory is empty:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp
$ ls
[E
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:46:37 -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
> Seems like this is asked about often enough to be in the FAQ.
We try not to include general Unix questions in the FAQ.
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il Rojas wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files
> >>>> with about 80K characters.
> >>>>
> >>>> I get the following
> >>>>
> >>>> bash: /bin/grep
t; I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files
>>>> with about 80K characters.
>>>>
>>>> I get the following
>>>>
>>>> bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long
>>>>
>>>> If I reduce the total
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote:
> At 10:26 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote:
> >
> > > I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files with
> > > about 80K characters.
> > >
> > > I get the f
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote:
> I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files with
> about 80K characters.
>
> I get the following
>
> bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long
>
> If I reduce the total characters to less then 32K it works fine.
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