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Re: [edlug] BASH question
Hi,
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:11, Ben Soares wrote:
> Okay, my actual problem is that the "file1 -nt file2" (newer than) test
> operator is failing to give the right answer when set against two files
> bigger than 2Gb. Also, filename expansion like "ls file[12]" also fails with
> "No such file or directory". Is this likely to be because large file support
> is not compiled in?
Yes, it definitely sounds like it.
> or is it a bug in bash?
No, here's bash running against a large (sparse) file on my current Red
Hat box ---
$ du -h big
0 big
$ ls -lh big
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sct sct 64G Jan 15 22:22 big
$ echo b*
big
$
Cheers,
Stephen
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