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Friday, May 13, 2005
 
Csh: Arguments too long error

Symptom:
C-shell fails to execute commands with arguments using wildcard characters.
eg.,

% \rm -rf *
Arguments too long

% ls -l | wc
8462 76151 550202

The reason for this failure is that the wildcard has exceeded C-shell limitation(s). The command in this example is evaluating to a very long string. It overwhelmed the csh limit of 1706, for the maximum number of arguments to a command for which filename expansion applies.

Workarounds:
  1. Use multiple commands Or
  2. Use xargs utility
    % \rm -rf *
    Arguments too long
    % ls | xargs rm -rf
    % ls
    %
    Or
    % \rm -rf *
    Arguments too long
    % find . -name "*" | xargs rm -rf
    % ls
    %

From Jerry Peek's Handle Too-Long Command Lines with xargs:
Reference:
Man page of csh

Thanks to Chris Quenelle for suggesting the xargs workaround


Comments:
You can use the xargs command to handle long argument lists.

/bin/ls | xargs rm -rf

I didn't try that, but that's the gist of it.
 
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