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Date:	Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:26:16 -0800
From:	Jon Ericson <Jonathan DOT L DOT Ericson AT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov>
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To:	Mike Schuster <schuster AT nuance DOT com>
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: long command lines
References:	<3A70B734 DOT A18289E AT nuance DOT com>

Mike Schuster wrote:
> 
> Problem: I couldn't figure out how to get very long command line
> arguments to work (~32k) (for example 'ls */*/*/*', if you have a lot of
> files on the disk).
> 
> Question: Does anybody know if this
>   a) a Windows problem,
>   b) a cygwin problem,
>   c) something that can easily be fixed by setting some parameter
> (Which?).

You should be using some combination of find and/or xargs rather than
wildcard expansion.  For instance, "find .".  This is a general shell
issue not limited to either Windows or cygwin.  

Jon
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