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Re: wildcard expansion once more
- To: David Robinow <drobinow at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: wildcard expansion once more
- From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:36:47 -0700
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: VERITAS Software
- References: <20000509174310.17931.qmail@web2105.mail.yahoo.com>
David Robinow wrote:
>
> --- Andre Berton <andre.berton@gmx.de> wrote:
> > While processing large amounts of data, cygwin runs
> > into trouble with
> > wildcard expansion (it happens only while processing
> > thousands of files). For example:
> > ls */*.txt
> > comes up with
> > bash: //c/cygtools/....bin/ls: Invalid argument
> >
> This is a bug. It should say "Arg list too long." or
> something similar.
Assuming that the error was from 'ls', I'd agree. But when I run 'ls'
with an invalid argument, it reports:
x*x: No such file or directory
It does not prepend "bash:" as seen in this error message. I would
assume any other errors from 'ls' would be handled the same. I'm
wondering if there is some problem with the "//c/cygtools/...bin/ls"
part itself? Put another way, 'bash' is complaining about
"//c/cygtools/...bin/ls" being invalid.
Seems that there is a need here for some further info, such as the
output of:
cygcheck -r -s -v
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Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan@veritas.com
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