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From: William Scott <wgscott@chemistry.ucsc.edu>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: recursive globbing, filename spaces and xargs
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:14:54 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0501170710390.995-100000@hydrogen.ucsc.edu> (raw)


Hi:

One of the things that I haven't been able to figure
out is how to deal with the error one gets when using

ls **/*

on a well-populated directory with lots of subdirectories.

zsh: argument list too long

If I do this when there are no filename spaces, it works:

echo **/*  | xargs ls

but if there are spaces, it fails, and I can't seem to figure
out how to quote or escape the spaces.

Any suggestions, or should I stick to find?

Thanks.

Bill Scott



             reply	other threads:[~2005-01-18  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-17 15:14 William Scott [this message]
2005-01-18  0:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-01-18  0:51 ` Christian Schneider
2005-01-18  1:15 ` Philippe Troin
2005-01-18  2:06   ` William Scott
2005-01-18  9:05   ` Stephane Chazelas

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