in reply to Re: One-shot code critique
in thread One-shot code critique

Besides TIMTOWTDI a number of operating systems have quite low limits to the number of files that get returned by a glob so if the target dir is large some files will just get omitted. Silently. Ouch.

cheers

tachyon

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Re(3): One-shot code critique
by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Sep 29, 2001 at 01:24 UTC

    Eek. So noted. Can you give some examples, or a pointer to more info? Sure be nice to know if my OS/shell was broken like this....

    (See? I told you I'd learn something.)

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