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mml
on Aug 16, 2011
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You can list a directory containing 8 million file...
What about 'echo *' ? That's usually my last resort when dealing with malfunctioning ls.
joblessjunkie
on Aug 16, 2011
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The shell will attempt to expand '*' into arguments before it spawns the 'echo' process.
The shell cannot handle long argument lists, so this will fail rather quickly.
smackfu
on Aug 16, 2011
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Yep, this is usually the first point of failure for commands acting on somewhat large directories, that drives people to use find and exec.
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