long command lines

Thu Jan 25 17:26:00 GMT 2001

Mike Schuster wrote:
>> Problem: I couldn't figure out how to get very long command line
> arguments to work (~32k) (for example 'ls */*/*/*', if you have a lot of
> files on the disk).
>> Question: Does anybody know if this
> a) a Windows problem,
> b) a cygwin problem,
> c) something that can easily be fixed by setting some parameter
> (Which?).

You should be using some combination of find and/or xargs rather than
wildcard expansion. For instance, "find .". This is a general shell
issue not limited to either Windows or cygwin. 
Jon
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