Argument too long list error

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have a wrote a script which consits of the below line.. Below of this script I'm getting this error "ksh: /usr/bin/ls: arg list too long"

The line is
log_file_time=`ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa -q $i ls -lrt /bp/karthik/test/data/log/$abc*|tail -1|awk '{print $8}'`

And $abc alias is as "p | grep LTP | awk '{print \$10}'"

And P has one more alias which show the process..

Please help me this is very urgent for me.

Thanks,
Karthik Reddy

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There are too many files in that directory. Try to use ls without wildcards, for example like so:

ls -tr /bp/karthik/test/data/log | sed -n "s|^$abc|/bp/karthik/test/data/log/&|p" | tail -1