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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!EU.net!CERN.ch!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: Strange response for ls Message-ID: <11FEB94.11065104@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 11:06:51 GMT Lines: 18 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