long command lines

Thu Jan 25 20:58:00 GMT 2001

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:42:03PM -0800, David M. Karr wrote:
>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Schuster <schuster@nuance.com> writes:
> Mike> Problem: I couldn't figure out how to get very long command line
> Mike> arguments to work (~32k) (for example 'ls */*/*/*', if you have a lot of
> Mike> files on the disk).
>> Mike> Question: Does anybody know if this
> Mike> a) a Windows problem,
> Mike> b) a cygwin problem,
> Mike> c) something that can easily be fixed by setting some parameter
> Mike> (Which?).
>>Before, when I only worked on Unix (with Ksh, NOT Csh), I used to use
>command lines like this all the time:
>> somecmd $(find . -type f)
>>When I started needing to do similar things on Cygwin, I discovered
>the line length problem, and concluded there was no "fix" for it.

I assume that you concluded this from an exhaustive study of the
source code.
cgf
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