At 3:08 PM +1000 7/1/02, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>  > # xargs ls -d < /tmp/p
>>  xargs: ls: Argument list too long
>
>You mean the warning "Argument list too long" ?
>It's coming from your shell.

Well, that's true, but it's coming from the shell because xargs
built a command that was too long...   :-)

tjr has already found a bug in xargs which seems to be the culprit
for this problem.  The change is in -current, and will show up in
-stable in another day or two.

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