Re: rm - Arguments too long

From: Greg Andrews (gerg@panix.com)
Date: 04/22/03


From: gerg@panix.com (Greg Andrews)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:24:25 +0000 (UTC)

hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Marshall) writes:
>
>I'll guess that you're using a bourne flavored shell. If
>you try the same command from a C flavored shell, you might find that
>it won't konk out as soon trying to expand *.
>

As Willy Wonka says in the famous children's story, "Strike that;
reverse it".

Csh is the shell on Solaris that has trouble with command lines
exceeding 1024 characters -- not sh.

  -Greg

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