Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:50:37 +0100 From: Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com> To: Zero Sum <count@shalimar.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: argument list too long Message-ID: <20001118185037.A41305@sebster.com> In-Reply-To: <00111810180600.08749@shalimar.net.au>; from count@shalimar.net.au on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:18:06AM %2B1100 References: <20001116122313.A69018@sebster.com> <00111722151204.01989@shalimar.net.au> <20001117125652.A91692@sebster.com> <00111810180600.08749@shalimar.net.au>
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Zero Sum wrote: > > So things are still broken (as I try to explain above), and I still think > > it needs fixing (stdarg construction, or standard --args-from-file option > > or somesuch). > > > > I'll tell you again, and I see, I'm not the only one. Nothing is 'broken'. > Nothing needs fixing. 'stdargs' would break everything we have and require > a full and total rewrite. Well I'll let democracy run its course then, and I guess the ultra-conservative party wins. At least I learnt some things from this thread, among others that "rm *" is obviously a broken construction and you should use "find . -maxdepth 1 -delete" (which doesn't work on all UN*X systems either (Solaris doesn't support -maxdepth OR -delete)). So maybe the best solution, which is portable and always works is "simply" "find . | grep '^\./[^/]*$'". Oh well, I'll give up on this topic now. Greetings, Sebastiaan van Erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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