GNU bug report logs - #7036
ls, mv, etc on LINUX

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Elisabet Wahlgren <elisabet.wahlgren <at> ericsson.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

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From: Elisabet Wahlgren <elisabet.wahlgren <at> ericsson.com>
To: 7036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:02:00 +0200

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Hi Guys,

Greatly surprised (and not very happy) that my attempts to list or move files satisfying a file name pattern (like ls *.tgz for example)  fail miserably on my linux machine, when the number of files satisfying the pattern is large. Error message example: "/bin/mv: Argument list too long". Is this a bug or a feature, would you know?

I used to work with a Unix version (Solaris) quite a number of years (decades) and cannot remember having seen this limitation before.

Any tips?

Regards,
Elisabet Wahlgren




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