argument list too long
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Wed Feb 27 11:52:22 UTC 2008
> 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.
thank you
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