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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:54:56 +0300
From:      "Putinas Piliponis" <Putinas.Piliponis@hansa.lt>
To:        "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>, "Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen@gmail.com>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Could ARG_MAX be increased?
Message-ID:  <217202CB5FF8AE439E263CE3D48ECB50686C37@honda.int.hansa.lt>

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but this is workaround - isn't it ?=20

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Cyrille Lefevre
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:47 PM
To: Juha Saarinen; freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased?

"Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, ARG_MAX is set to:
>=20
> $ getconf ARG_MAX
> 65536
> =20
> in syslimits.h. This is quite low compared to other OS (SunOS has 1MB
> IIRC, and OpenBSD 3.5 256K) and causes the "argument list too long"
> issues when for instance grep'ing in directories with lots of files.


how about grep -r ou find | xargs grep !

Cyrille Lefevre.
--=20
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