On Apr 22, 2:13*pm, Joachim Gann <joachim.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 Apr., 10:53, Hajo Ehlers <serv...@metamodul.com> wrote:
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> > On Apr 22, 10:30 am, Ashok Sangra <aksan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Apr 22, 7:25 am, moonhkt <moon...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Hi all
> > > > When below message prompted. Is it setup user memory by individual
> > > > user ?
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> > > > AIX 5.2
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> > > > # ls *.p > $HOME/abc.txt
> > > > ksh: /usr/bin/ls: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.
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> > > > moonhk
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> > > Pls use ls *.p | xargs > $HOME/abc.txt
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> > It will not help since the "*" from " ls *.p " get expanded by the
> > shell first. Thus the command which will be executed will be something
> > like
> > $ ls file1.p file2.p ... fileN.p
> > *And if the parameter list is too long you get a Parameter list is too
> > long :-)
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> > A solution would be:
> > $ ls | grep "\.p$"
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> > cheers
> > Hajo
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> or "find . -name \*.p > SOMEFILE"
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> if you mind, you can also increase the ARG_MAX (a posix system wide
> configuration parameter)
> see "getconf ARG_MAX",
> which is the memory every process has set aside for cmdline arguments
> and environment variables, *defaults to 24k on aix
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> change it globally with "smit chgsys" -> "ARG/ENV list size"
> but be aware that every new process will consume the additional memory
> you specify.
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Thanks Hajo & Joachim for correcting me. That was indeed a bad
solution. Thanks,
-Ashok