From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 10 11:33:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EEC37B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DDB743E3B for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8AIXYLu029365 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:33:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8AIXUma029362; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:33:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Directory containing many files References: <20020910132907.1aabde58.jylefort@brutele.be> <018401c258e0$c2165fc0$04fea8c0@motorcity.on.ca> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Sep 2002 14:33:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <018401c258e0$c2165fc0$04fea8c0@motorcity.on.ca> Message-ID: <44admpheyt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 7 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Can some problems arise by having that many files in one > > single directory? > > I have had issues with (bash) shell globbing. For example the > command: That's what xargs(1) was invented for. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message