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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Research Computing Support Group
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Miami University
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