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Date:      Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:12:39 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        mharo@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   sudo and xargs disagree about maximum command line length
Message-ID:  <20050810201239.GP70957@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>

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Hi,

I think the below should not happen:

[stijn@tangaloor] </net/freebsd/ports> find . | grep CVS/Root | xargs sudo =
-u src sed -i.bak -e 's#/freebsd#/net/freebsd#'
sudo: unable to execute /usr/bin/sed: Argument list too long
sudo: unable to execute /usr/bin/sed: Argument list too long
sudo: unable to execute /usr/bin/sed: Argument list too long
sudo: unable to execute /usr/bin/sed: Argument list too long

Is there a sudo knob that should be tweaked?

--Stijn

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