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Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: argument list too long
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>> 2000 to do the rest.
>
> That's less than xargs's default of 5000 :)  The xargs manpage explains
> it all.
with this defaults i've got "argument list too long" because every 
argument is 70-80 bytes by average.

thanks for all help!