Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:03:14 -0800 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limit to number of files seen by ls? Message-ID: <200907271303.14747.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <20090727204232.GA51584@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <20090725222918.AC51DB7E0@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <8AF593F8-DA94-4C54-89E2-155988886331@identry.com> <20090727204232.GA51584@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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On Monday 27 July 2009 12:42:32 Chris Cowart wrote: > John Almberg wrote: > > Which is why I'm starting to think that (a) my problem is different > > or (b) I'm so clueless that there isn't any problem at all, and I'm > > just not understanding something (most likely scenario!) > > It looks to me like the thread began assuming that you must be typing > `ls *` in order to run into problems. Yeah, I just noticed that too. So how did you determine there should be ~4000 files in the directory when ls shows ~2300. Also, does ls give an error message? ls -l >/tmp/out should clear that up and you can use wc -l /tmp/out to see how many files are returned. -- Mel
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