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Argument list too long



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. This list is a list of the source files in a development tree retrieved with find.

I just updated to see if this announcement,

Updated: findutils-4.2.10-5, http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00207.html would fix it, but it does not appear to do so.

I know this is not a problem under linux, and I don't remember it being a problem in earlier versions of cygwin. Is this a feature or a bug? If it is a bug, despite reading abut reporting bugs on the cygwin web site I still am totally uncertain about how one would report this bug. Guidance here would be appreciated.


thanks,
eo
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