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Re: findfile not recognized [message #44899 is a reply to message #44807]

Fri, 22 July 2005 08:21

brodzik@nsidc.org
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Registered: July 2005

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Mark Hadfield wrote:

> Perhaps findfile fails because there are *too many* files in the
> directory. I vaguely recall references to problems such as this on this
> group. I am too lazy to Google the group to confirm this, but you could
> give it a try.

I've had problems like this, when wildcards are being expanded, and end
up overloading (I think) the shell buffer's limit. I've tested for it
by going out to the shell, and doing an ls on the pattern that the
findfile command
was returning 0 files for (wrong answer, of course, I had checked the
filenames very thoroughly ;-)). The ls returns this:

% ls /my/very/long/path/to/lots/of/files/????/*H
/bin/ls: Argument list too long.

btw, it has to do with the filename wildcards ("*H")--not the "/????/",

because
% ls /my/very/long/path/to/lots/of/files/????/

returns the very long list I expected (which are more than twice as
many as the
*H would have limited them to.) Somebody explained the difference to
me once, but I can't remember now. I suspect file_search handles
things differently in the case of shell "Argument list too long"
errors, because it works.

Yet another nudge in favor of changing all that code to file_search...

--Mary Jo Brodzik

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		findfile not recognized By: amohraz on Wed, 20 July 2005 09:52
		Re: findfile not recognized By: brodzik@nsidc.org on Fri, 22 July 2005 08:21
		Re: findfile not recognized By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 21 July 2005 07:55
		Re: findfile not recognized By: edward.s.meinel@aero. on Thu, 21 July 2005 07:07
		Re: findfile not recognized By: Haje Korth on Thu, 21 July 2005 06:26
		Re: findfile not recognized By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 20 July 2005 16:23
		Re: findfile not recognized By: amohraz on Wed, 20 July 2005 16:03
		Re: findfile not recognized By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 July 2005 15:54
		Re: findfile not recognized By: amohraz on Wed, 20 July 2005 15:33
		Re: findfile not recognized By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 July 2005 15:12
		Re: findfile not recognized By: amohraz on Wed, 20 July 2005 14:56
		Re: findfile not recognized By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 July 2005 14:41

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