On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error. I made it happen with ed too. I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument lists with regular expressions in this case.
Does `find . -name REGEXP -exec COMMAND` help? See man find. I use it whenever rm or mv return argument list too long. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish