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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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sorry i wrongly described what i've did. i should say that my total list 
was about 5000 positions, and xargs -n 2000 solved this.

now i tested - xargs without -n works OK too.

thanks!