QSH command list error.

I am attempting to list an IFS directory that contains 65,000 images using the following commands in a CL program.

CD DIR(&PATH)
QSH CMD('ls -tr *.*')

It writes this error to the STDOUT file
qsh: 001-0078 Process ended by signal 5.

Researching this it appears that there is a limit to the entries that QSH can list.

From an IBM help document:

The boundary on the number of arguments allowed to be passed to the ls, rm, or other similar Qshell commands is 16,383. The above messages will be generated if the user is attempting to pass in more than 16,383 arguments. That is, if the pattern matches 16,383 objects, the utility will work. If the pattern matches 16,384 objects, the utility will fail.

So it appears doing a QSH list on any folder with more than 16373 entries will fail?

TIA.


Tom Deskevich


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