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Paul Eggert |
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Re: du |
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Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:27:53 -0800 |
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"JMV" <address@hidden> writes:
> Is there a # of files limit?
>
> du -sX userimages/2519/dsp_*
>
> generates
> -bash: /usr/bin/du: Argument list too long
> When there are a few hundred files that match
That's not a limit in du per se. It's a limit in your operating
system (most likely, in the implementation of the execl system call,
or one of its variants). To fix it, you need to fix your operating
system.
You can work around the problem with the --files0-from option, in
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