rsync more than 131072 files on linux

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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

Wrong. Bash's command parameter buffer is too small.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)