Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 2:16 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
In any case, as I mentioned, my solutions are not very good.
Note that a 64-bit system might handle this better.
I don't think so, it is a bash limit, not an architecture limit.
Yes and no. The ls problem that Albert had was not a bash problem, but was most likely an ls buffer issue.
if so, a ls > list.txt could work? No, if it is an ls problem, it is the buffering in ls. The shell does not get involved with the internals of a command. The only difference between displaying the ls output to the screen or to a file is
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 4:09 pm, jdd sur free wrote:
that when displaying to a console, you have the tty driver.
The only bash limit that would come into play is when while cards are
expanded on the command line.
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Jerry Feldman