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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:48:14 +0200
From: Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de>
To: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Length of argument list
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Hi all,
I created 1 million files in a directory callend manyfiles/.

Now 
ls manyfiles/* |wc -l

gives 
zsh: argument list too long: ls


Question: Is there a way to change the maximum size of the argument
list?



-- 
Manfred