2010/1/2 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: > using xargs does work around the problem. but then why not > go all the way and remove ` from rc? after all, ` only works some > of the time?
because the limit is big enough that cases that break the limit almost never happen except in this case? > i'm not sure i understand when and why this would be useful. nobody > has a real worm anymore. i can walk /sys/src in 0.5s. you've got a fast system. in at least one system i use, du -a of /sys/src takes about 25s. and /sys/src isn't by any means the largest tree i like to grep (for instance, searching for lost files with a name i longer remember, i've been known to search through all the files in my home directory, ~425000 files at last count) sometimes i think it would be nice if du had a breadth-first option.
