Why 'sudo ls *' failed where 'ls *' runs successfully in the directory which have many files on RHEL6.1

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Issue

Please let me know about Error itself?

  • What is the reason why 'sudo ls *' to check many files failed?
  • How to avoid error when we run 'sudo ls *' to check many files?
  • We also see similar error by running 'sudo rm *' , does this error occur whenever running any command with sudo to many files?
  • Can we use find command to avoid this Error?
sudo find /home/user -print0 | xargs -0 sudo ls
  • What error code should be expected when running sudo command?
  • Please let me know about error code from ls.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • sudo-1.7.4p5-5.el6.x86_64

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