On 2008-02-27 12:49, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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.

Yeah, that's a fair point.  xargs is good for that :-)

> thank you

You are welcome, of course.

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