[GRLUG] globbing

[Bob Kline]

Filezilla was the hosting site's suggestion
when all the dust settled.

The OS on their end is

CentOS 4.9
Pure-FTPD

Not sure what "Pure-FTPD" means, but
probably basic ftp.

I pretty much knew they couldn't do
anything about the basic situation, since
I'd guess CentOS uses the same basic
ftp package every other distribution uses.
At least at the level of a the basic service
that I have.

The better solution would be to have
an ssh connection, but at the lowest
levels of service this doesn't seem to be
an option.  Another order of magnitude,
or even two, of byte limit for globbing
would be nice in today's world. Richard
Stallman argued 30 years ago that
machine's should have full word lengths
as limits, not the silly, arbitrary limits
that people often in fact use.

Today that would mean essentially
unlimited, but of course his appeal didn't
take, and so we have silly little issues
like this one.

  -- Bob




On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not sure what the issue is, but a possible solution may be to use
> Filezilla as your FTP client:
>
> http://forum.bplaced.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20662
>
> Good luck and let us know how things go.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It happens at the level of one file.
> > e.g., if I use "ls zz*" for the file zz.jpg
> > I get a globbing error.  Using "ls zz.jpg,"
> > I get the usual result.
> >
> >
> >
> >    -- Bob
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM, <scott.tanner at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I haven't seen that particular error, but it sounds like the "list too
> >> long" error I see in CentOS at times.   Do you see this error on any
> >> wildcard matching, or just when the wildcard matches a large number of
> files
> >> ( ie "rm *"  versus "rm exact_filename.tx?" )  ?
> >>
> >> If its matching a large number of files, try piping through xargs:
> >>
> >>   ls files2del* | xargs -i rm {}
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Scott
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: "Bob Kline" <bob.kline at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area."
> >> <grlug at grlug.org>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 9:34:52 AM
> >> Subject: [GRLUG] globbing
> >>
> >>
> >> I've recently encountered an issue
> >> with globbing on my web hosting site.
> >>
> >> The problem is that any attempt to
> >> use wild cards when I try to, for example,
> >> delete a bunch of files on the hosting site
> >> results in an error saying "out of memory
> >> while globbing."
> >>
> >> In parenthesis it then suggests  "This probably
> >> means 'Permission denied.' "
> >>
> >> Permission to glob?
> >>
> >> I can, for example, delete files one at a time,
> >> by typing in the entire name - i.e., no wild cards.
> >>
> >> Nor does it appear to have to do with the
> >> number of files - no globbing even with one file.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions here?
> >>
> >> I'll ask the web host provider as well....
> >>
> >>    -- Bob
> >>
> >>
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