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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:28:44 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
Cc:        freebsd stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: xargs broken
Message-ID:  <p05111712b9462510e107@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20020701150802.E79950@k7.mavetju>
References:  <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org> <20020701150802.E79950@k7.mavetju>

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At 3:08 PM +1000 7/1/02, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>  > # xargs ls -d < /tmp/p
>>  xargs: ls: Argument list too long
>
>You mean the warning "Argument list too long" ?
>It's coming from your shell.

Well, that's true, but it's coming from the shell because xargs
built a command that was too long...   :-)

tjr has already found a bug in xargs which seems to be the culprit
for this problem.  The change is in -current, and will show up in
-stable in another day or two.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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