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From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in
Subject: Strange response for ls
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Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 11:06:51 GMT
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I do an ls /a/b/c/*/m*/*.x
and i get
/bin/ls: Argument too long.

This file system is on a cd, and running the same command on a sun
gives a list about 3500 files long.

Im running NetBSD 0.9, on a 486/66

I forgot to mention that the ls takes a looong time before it gives
me the above response.
And the file system is an NFS mounted system.

Is there some kind of limit on the depth to which one can do a wildcard
directory listing?

bhiksha