"ls -al * " not work

[Lou Spironello]

Hello Chloe K:

It's actually working very well.  In your first command it's telling you you
have
many many files.  Much more than the internal buffers of ls can process.

Try the following:

find . -maxdepth 1 -print | sort | more


find . -maxdepth 1 -name "<wildcard of your filespec>" -print | sort | more

Example:
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.db" -print | sort | more


Hope this helps.

Regards,
Lou

On Nov 23, 2007 10:54 AM, chloe K <chloekcy2000 at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Hi
>
> My ls command not works  properly
> Are there many files problem?
>
> [host]# ls -al |wc -l
> 55264
>
> [host]# ls -al *.db |more
> -bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
>
> [host]# ls -al *
> -bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
> [host]# ls -al *.*
> -bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
>
>
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