On Mar 3, 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>
>> Your arguments don't hold water.
Indeed :-)
> This problem is NOT with xargs; it's with the generated command line
> (which is usually limited to 10240 characters by the underlying
> system).
Yup
> Hopefully the solution IS in xargs: just use for example "find
> <something> | xargs -n10 <whatever you need to do>"
Yup, or -s10240, which actually limits the size of the command line
xargs runs, without imposing additional overheads. But then, you'd
have to test whether xargs supports `-n' or `-s'.
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