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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:08:02 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
Cc:        freebsd stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: xargs broken
Message-ID:  <20020701150802.E79950@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org>; from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:37:03AM %2B0200
References:  <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org>

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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:37:03AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> xargs seems to be broken right now...
> could someone reproduce the following sequence ?
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD gits 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #15: Sun Jun 23 06:31:23 CEST 2002     root@gits:/disk2/freebsd/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM  i386
> # ident /usr/bin/xargs
> /usr/bin/xargs:
>      $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.c,v 1.9.2.3 2002/06/17 04:44:46 jmallett Exp $
>      $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/xargs/strnsubst.c,v 1.5.2.1 2002/06/17 04:44:46 jmallett Exp $
> # cd /home/ncvs
> # find ports -type d | grep -v Attic | sort -u > /tmp/p
> # cd /usr
> # 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.

Edwin

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