rsync more than 131072 files on linux

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sat Jan 26 04:17:49 GMT 2008


On Friday 25 January 2008, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Sylvain Gargasson wrote:
> > Thanks for my RAM problem, it's OK now, Dell share me 32GB of RAM.
> >
> > But now when I try on my showroom with a lot of files in one directory I
> > have this error:
> >
> > sho-lnx-001:~ # rsync -av --progress --stats /mnt/source/*
> > /mnt/destination/
> >
> > -bash: /usr/bin/rsync: Argument list too long
>
> It is just a bash isssue.

bash is just passing the error up from the OS
-mike
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