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lots of gnu utils have the dreaded filename length creativity impediment
From: |
Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
lots of gnu utils have the dreaded filename length creativity impediment |
Date: |
19 Dec 2001 11:20:18 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
Dear GNU sirs, perhaps many of your tools have the dreaded "arbitrary
filename length limit", e.g.
$ touch $(yes|sed 260q|tr -d \\n)
touch: yyyyyyyy ... yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy: File name too long
limiting the creativity of youngsters everywhere to e.g.,
$ touch $(yes|sed 250q|tr -d \\n) #[shudder]
next thing you know, you'll be requiring ALL_CAPS.
Anyway, it happened on tee and touch, and I bet if you did
$ su junk_acct
long_name=$(yes|sed 260q|tr -d \\n);
$ for i in gnu/bin/*; do $i $long_name; done
you'll find lots of them. True I've got old stuff, but I bet you
couldn't have fixed them all... ed..., I bet you didn't fix ed.
Or just scan your source tree for the grim reaper of creativity "File
name too long" line.
Or maybe it is a Mandrake 7.2 thing. If so the secretary will disavow
any knowledge of this message.
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- lots of gnu utils have the dreaded filename length creativity impediment,
Dan Jacobson <=