On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:16:49AM -0600, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > Speaking of which, rm -f $(CLEAN_FILES) could also end up being too > > long on certain types of UNIX. So maybe put .pycs into a different list. > > Or if we can find out the minimum length supported by systems still in > > use today, we split up CLEAN_FILES accordingly, and run > > rm -f $(CLEAN_FILES1); rm -rf $(CLEAN_FILES2); ... etc. > > Or just use xargs(1).
How? 'echo $(CLEAN_FILES) | xargs' has the same problem (can fail at 'echo') Stefan