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Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar)
From: |
Browder, Tom |
Subject: |
Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar) |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:22:56 -0500 |
I have a directory that has grown quite large (over 2500 files).
I regularly copy the files to a transfer directory, cd to that
directory, and tar them and gzip them (tar cvzf xfer.tgz *) to take them
to another site.
Last week I started getting errors indicating there were too many files
for the command (rm *, ls *, tar cvzf xfer.tgz *) to continue.
I was able to get the commands to work by reducing the file count down
to about 1900. Is there a magic number limit on those commands? Or am
I doing something wrong. I'm currently running linux on an Intel PC
with a Fedora 7 distribution.
Thanks.
-Tom
- Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar),
Browder, Tom <=
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Bob Proulx, 2008/04/15
- RE: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Browder, Tom, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Bob Proulx, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Bob Proulx, 2008/04/15
- Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Karl Berry, 2008/04/15
- RE: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Browder, Tom, 2008/04/15