/bin/cp: Argument list too long

[I.Ioannou]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:05:02PM -0500, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> > for i in * ; do cp $i /home/alex/Mail/HELLUG/cur/ ; done
> 
> Eeeyxaristw! Ayth htan h lysh. Gia kapoio logo (pou den ton katalabainw kai 
> den mou aresei ka8olou), diafores aples entoles se ekeina ta directories (me 

Mhn se parakseneuei. To shell prepei na kanei expand ta arguments gia na 
ta dwsei sto programma. Alla h buffer gia command line arguments den exei apeiro mhkos. 
Xwraei arketa, oxi para polla (kai pou na douleues se px Xenix h sco unix :-) ).
Gia auto h praktikh se autes tis periptwseis einai kapoies apo tis lyseis pou 
hdh sou aneferan (for loop, cp -avf klp). To kalo me to unix shell einai oti exei
polles tetoies enalaktikes lyseis.

roryt