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RE: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar)
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Browder, Tom |
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RE: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar) |
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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:39:00 -0500 |
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Proulx [mailto:bob@proulx.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:56
>To: Browder, Tom
>Cc: help-gnu-utils@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar)
>Browder, Tom wrote:
>> Last week I started getting errors indicating there were too many
>> files for the command (rm *, ls *, tar cvzf xfer.tgz *) to continue.
...
>You are running into the kernel's ARG_MAX limitation. Please
>see this reference for more information.
...
>For your 'tar' case you can avoid the argument expansion
>entirely simply by giving '.' as the argument.
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> tar cvzf xfer.tgz .
Hm, when I try this the tgz archive gets sucked back into itself.
-Tom
- Command failure: Too Many Files (rm, ls, tar), Browder, Tom, 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), 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),
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