> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:04:31 +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > Sorry for butting in. Adding new non-portable functionality to solve the problem
> > > which could be adequitely taken care of using existing and well known
> > > techniquies is not appropriate, I completely agree with you on that.
> >
> > And I'm still waiting to see those well known techniques.
>
> Attached small script should solve this problem and doesn't require
> introducing incompatible option in the standard tool.
>
> For example:
>
> find /usr/src -type f | xargs larg cp targetdir
>
> For speed purposes it could be implemented in raw C.
>
> -Maxim
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ ${#} -le 2 ]; then
> echo "Usage: larg command lastarg arg1 [arg2 ...]"
> exit 0
^
oops :-)
> fi
>
> COMMAND=${1}
> LASTARG=${2}
> shift 2
> exec ${COMMAND} "${@}" "${LASTARG}"
Yes, I think this will work as long as your environment isn't
polluted by something like $ENV (any increase in the environment size
will effect xargs's calculation of how many arguments will fit on the
command line).
Of course I still prefer the xargs fix - as you said above, it'd be
nicer in C :-)
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