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Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long
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Eric Blake |
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Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long |
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Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:06:29 -0700 |
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According to Manickam Muthuraman on 11/21/2007 4:47 AM:
> address@hidden:~/HHpred/scop_hmm> cat *.hhm > scop70_1.72.hhm
> bash: /bin/cat: Argument list too long
This is a FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Argument-list-too-long
It is not a bug in cat, but a limitation of your kernel. Perhaps you want
to use the following workaround:
{ echo *.hhm | xargs cat; } > scop70_1.72.hhm.tmp
mv scop70_1.72.hhm.tmp scop70_1.72.hhm
Note that I broke the command into two steps, so that I guarantee that I'm
not trying to cat the contents of scop70_1.72.hhm into itself.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long, Micah Cowan, 2007/11/21