Re: bash parameters list too long ?!

[Chet Ramey]

> A ls *.eml in a dir that have 40 000 files gives me:
> $> ls *.eml
> bash: /bin/ls: Liste de paramètres trop longue
> that means parameters list too long ...

This doesn't have anything to do with bash per se; it's just bash reporting
the error.

There is a maximum to the total number of bytes in the
arguments+environment that the exec* family of system calls will
accept, and the filenames are causing that limit to be exceeded. 

Chet

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