Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:29:37 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: argument list too long Message-ID: <20080227152937.GJ3328@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20080227124822.C2519@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20080227100132.G1831@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <47C52A64.5000701@locolomo.org> <20080227111551.GA2403@kobe.laptop> <20080227124822.C2519@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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In the last episode (Feb 27), Wojciech Puchar said:
>> one can easily write:
>>
>> find . -name '*.ogg' | \
>> while read file ; do \
>> blah "${file}"
>> done
>>
>> xargs(1) is another popular tool for processing large argument lists:
>>
>> find -name '*.ogg' | xargs blah
>
> unless program "blah" starts slowly, and it's better to give it 2000
> params at once.
>
> but i've asked to be sure what is actual limit, and used xargs -n
> 2000 to do the rest.
That's less than xargs's default of 5000 :) The xargs manpage explains
it all.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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