<quote who="Alec"> > Hi > > I don't know if this is POSIX-compliant behaviour or a bug, but > xargs can only pass 1024 arguments.
have you tried these options? --max-chars=max-chars, -s max-chars Use at most max-chars characters per command line, including the command and initial arguments and the terminating nulls at the ends of the argument strings. The default is as large as possible, up to 20k characters. --max-args=max-args, -n max-args Use at most max-args arguments per command line. Fewer than max-args arguments will be used if the size (see the -s option) is exceeded, unless the -x option is given, in which case xargs will exit. note that max args depends on max chars ..