[GRLUG] globbing

[Bob Kline]

A P.S., the person said there is no
byte limit, but there is a file limit - 200K.
They don't care how big the files are.
Just the number.

So in effect there is a byte limit, since
there's no obvious way to exploit the
unlimited size.

   -- Bob


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 but for that feature, which I think is outdated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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