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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:01:08 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
Cc:        Putinas Piliponis <Putinas.Piliponis@hansa.lt>
Subject:   Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased?
Message-ID:  <200409250101.25143.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <359635024.20040924165946@andric.com>
References:  <217202CB5FF8AE439E263CE3D48ECB50686C37@honda.int.hansa.lt> <200409242315.31325.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <359635024.20040924165946@andric.com>

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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:29, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> That shouldn't matter, since the -0 argument to xargs tells it to
> expect NUL characters *instead* of spaces or newlines.  As long as NUL
> characters aren't allowed in filenames, it should work. :)

I was commenting on the pipe to a read inside a while loop (which was neat =
:)

> Note that there's still a chance that the program actually called by
> xargs doesn't handle newlines or other weird characters in filenames
> properly, though...

Yeah.. unlikely unless it's a shell script which does strange things tho.

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for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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