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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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