Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:41:29 -0400 From: Robert Hough <rch@acidpit.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System Tuning/Sysadmins Message-ID: <20010617184129.B84666@acidpit.org> In-Reply-To: <p05100328b752a1592737@[194.78.241.123]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 20:04:06 %2B0200 References: <20010617063505.A29241@shell.monmouth.com> <20010617073505.B20171@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <20010617103922.A79022@acidpit.org> <20010617093905.A20349@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <20010617124444.A84138@acidpit.org> <20010617110702.A20700@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <20010617135150.A84666@acidpit.org> <p05100328b752a1592737@[194.78.241.123]>
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2001, Brad Knowles wrote: > > What about shell command line limitations on length? It seems to > me that to be sure you eliminate any possibility of problems there, > you need to send output to a temporary file, and walk through it line > by line. Made me stop and think about that for a second huh! Actually, I created 60000 files in a directory and tested my little script in it. Worked without a hitch. Now, I can see what you mean though, as some instances would have problems with this -- ls for instance does. [rch@warhammer tmp]$ ls 1* bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long Using 'echo 1*' didn't give me this problem. Actually, this is how I learned about using echo to show directory listings in the first place. I kept running into that limitation with ls. I don't claim to be a scripting god, but I can usually make something work when I have to. Which was my point to begin with. I'd never attempt to replace 'ls' with my crappy script, but should I ever lose 'ls' I'll have something to fall back on. I actually have a little more feature filled 'showdir.sh' script, but it was a bit too long to post here. Now, if I could just get it to show permissions, and do some color! :) -- Robert Hough (rch@acidpit.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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