limit to number of files seen by ls?

[Julian Zottl]

How are you using ls?  I presume something along the lines of "ls -la |
more".

What does "sysctl fs.file-ma" and "sysctl kern.maxfiles" tell you?

I've seen directories with 10000+ files.  The only problem I've ever had
with that many is using the rm command.  In that case, you will need to use
something like find ./ -type f -exec rm {}\;

Take care,

----
Julian


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:01 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg at identry.com> wrote:

> I seem to have run into an odd problem...
>
> A client has a directory with a big-ish number of jpgs... maybe 4000.
> Problem is, I can only see 2329 of them with ls, and I'm running into other
> problems, I think.
>
> Question: Is there some limit to the number of files that a directory can
> contain? Or rather, is there some number where things like ls start working
> incorrectly?
>
> -- John
>
>
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