[MLUG] Re: ls features

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

See message below from GNU coreutils guy.  I find that this command...

getconf ARG_MAX

...gives me "1048320" on Solaris and only "131072" on Red Hat Linux. 
Maybe this is something I can configure.

I'll write to the coreutils guy again.  I assume his message, cc'd to this 
list, was not delivered.

Mike


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Paul Jarc wrote:

> Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 
>> The 'ls' command has many great features/options but case insensitivity is
>> not one of them.
>
> Where would you want to have case insensitivity?  If you're thinking
> of pathname generation from wildcards, that's handled by the shell,
> not ls.  This might be what you want:
> $ ls [Tt][Ee][Ss][Tt]*
> Check the documentation for your shell to see what other globbing
> features it has.
>
>> Also, things like 'ls *' will fail if the directory listing is too
>> long.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument%20list%20too%20long
>
>
> paul
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