Not enough memory to run command

[peterchu]

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

[Ken Penland_1]

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'

[Chris Wilshaw · Accepted solution]

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

[Fred Ruffet]

could you please show us the command ?

reagrds,

Fred

[Victor Fridyev]

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

[Fabio Ettore]

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

[Navin Bhat_2]

Is this 10.20 or 11.0?