topic Not enough memory to run command in Operating System - HP-UX

Not enough memory to run command

peterchu — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:15:24 GMT

When I use "find" command on the shell , it deny me to do it and pop the below error , may be we have too many files so not enough memory to do that , can I increase the memory and do it again ? if it is OK , how can I increase the memory ? thx

-bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long

Re: Not enough memory to run command

Ken Penland_1 — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:21:35 GMT

what is the syntax you are using in your find command, meaning, are you doing a find and specifying wildcards?

if you are doing something like:
find . -name *.log

try instead:
find . -name '*.log'

Re: Not enough memory to run command

Chris Wilshaw — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:21:43 GMT

What OS version are you on, and what's the full command you're trying to run?

Re: Not enough memory to run command

Fred Ruffet — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:21:50 GMT

could you please show us the command ?

reagrds,

Fred

Re: Not enough memory to run command

Victor Fridyev — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:58:25 GMT

Hi,

The reason for such a message is that the command gives a large output, which you use somewhere as a list, e.g. this is similar to "ls *" in a directory with thousands of files.
If you use
find something | xargs cmd
replace it with
find something -exec cmd {} \;

HTH

Re: Not enough memory to run command

Fabio Ettore — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:04:49 GMT

Hi,

problem could be that find command obtains too many files.

Complete command launched could help to understand better your problem.

You also should know that bash shell on HP-UX is not supported, it is default on Linux.
What is your O.S.?

Best regards,
Ettore

Re: Not enough memory to run command

Navin Bhat_2 — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:49:08 GMT

Is this 10.20 or 11.0?