You may want to try:



find . -name 'filename*' | xargs ls

(or cat or more or rm)


> Robin,
>
> I'm trying to work with a lot of files and have run into a bash or OS
> limitation. When I try a command that works with a wildcard file spec,
> e.g.,
> ls, wc, cat, etc., I get the error "Argument list too long". Searching on
> the Web shows that the system has a limit of ARG_MAX arguments, which is
> 131072. Unless there are reasons not to, could you bump this up, say to
> 500000?
>
> Thanks.
> Greg
>
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