Could ARG_MAX be increased?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:15:23PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:16, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >  find . -type f | \
> >  while read line ;do
> >   # Do something with $line
> >  done
> >
> > This and xargs -0 for the cases where filenames can contain whitespace
> > works like a charm anywhere, anytime...
> 
> It's only a pitty that you can have newlines in filenames :)
> (Rare though)

for something like that I'd do the renaming with my directory editor.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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