[GRLUG] globbing

[Tim Schmidt]

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On Oct 4, 2012 9:43 AM, "Bob Kline" <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> BASH being GNU's version of the shell, I'd
> of thought the limit would be humongous.
> As I mentioned, Stallman advocated decades
> ago that programs use word lengths as limits.
> In 1980 that would have been 8 and 16 bits
> for PCs, but of course those didn't run Unix
> yet.  But 32-bit machines running Unix did
> start to appear about 25 years ago.  32-bits
> is a big limit, and today, 64-bits ought to
> hold everybody....
>
> Anyway, the support person mentioned the
> package FileZilla.  If that uses xargs, then
> yes, I agree that is the way to go.  It then
> probably gets around globbing altogether.
> FTP works fine, even while it's 40 years old,
> but for that feature, which I think is outdated
> in its implementation.  Perhaps globbing
> doesn't scale well at some point.
>
> I'd still prefer an ssh connection, but that
> doesn't seem available, at least on low
> budget hosting plans like mine.....
>
>    -- Bob
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think this is pretty typical on all the unix's I am aware of.  The
>> shell is just a program, and the developer had to choose a size for how
>> long a command to accept and parse.
>>
>> When globbing, it is easy to pass this limit.  The xargs solution the
>> support person mentioned is the default answer IMO.
>>
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