On Aug 1, 2007, at 17:02, David Cantrell wrote:
What's hateful is the shell or OS (I can't be bothered to remember
which) which makes it necessary - namely the limitation on how long
your
command line can be. Without that, xargs need not exist and so would
be
free of hate.
An unlimited command line is impossible, and hideously inefficient.
Eventually you'll run out of VM building the command line, no matter
how much VM you have. You have to get away from the whole concept of
the command line to resolve that problem.
