[GRLUG] globbing

[Bob Kline]

I must have talked to the wrong
person.  The chat person said they
did not offer shell accounts....

Did you just call them?  I did not say
that I knew someone that already had
one....

   -- Bob


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Justhost.com will give you a shell account after a verification phone
> call, on a $45 / year account.  So far, they've been excellent.
> 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 but for that feature, which I think is outdated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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