bash Argument list too long 1

[stefanwagner]

When I call:
jar -cf ../blues.jar *
on bash, I get:
jar: Argument list too long

If I start an equivalent zip-command, I get
gzip: Argument list too long

I guess it is the bash, which tries to generate the list of all the files (about 42.000) and gets confused by to much files.
Is the limit of file-expansion a well-known bash-item?
Does it depend on the filename-length?

 

[apatterno]

I think bash limits arguments to 32,768 characters

What you can do is:

[tt]jar -cf ../blues.jar .[/tt]

That will recursively add the current directory to the jar archive.


_{I REALLY hope that helps.}
Will

 

[stefanwagner]

Hey!
Thanks for that hint!

I will try it out at home this evening, since I'm punished to work with silly2000 at work, and can't try it out here.

I hope I will remember to post my experiences here.
Maybe someone else can take advantage of that too.

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[stefanwagner]

So now I'm at home and gave it a try.
Though it lasted about 20 minutes to jar 40.000 Files to a 28MB jar file, the command
jar -cf ../blues.jar .
worked, and making the index
cd ..
jar -i blues.jar
needed 9 Minutes, but it succeeded, and that was the point.

Every solution should be that lean

Thanks,
Stefan