argument list too long

[Dan Nelson]

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.

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	Dan Nelson
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