-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Lance Nehring on 3/22/2006 11:18 AM: > Hi all, > I tried to use the mkcygwget script to download a cygwin mirror for > offline installation. The mkcygwget script generates a script named > cygwget to do the heavy lifting of retreiving files. However, I got a > "argument list too long" exception from wget, since the generated script > has all the files to be downloaded appended to a single wget command.
Consider using xargs. It is more efficient to collect as many arguments as will fit to a single wget command than it is to spawn a separate wget process for every filename. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEIpYq84KuGfSFAYARAiRIAKCeXeLXWxbJcUPPnpIx2yLu9Eu4/wCgrDPm rZRIvjUMt0yKGVsQrTfoyrk= =CMpO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
