Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:02:02 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Message-ID: <21060.987865322@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:51:24 %2B0200." <200104211451.QAA04891@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:51:24 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > That can overflow your shell's command line limit (at the > "for" command). True, our /bin/sh doesn't has such a > limit, AFAIK, but there _are_ shells that do). That's actually my point. What's being proposed is a non-standard extension to work around a problem on a system that already doesn't have the problem. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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