Ralph wrote:
> Watch out for when xargs invokes do_something more than once and the `<'
> is parsed by a different one than the `>'.

It will take a pretty long list to do that.  It seems that
GNU xargs on top of a Linux kernel has a 128 KByte ARG_MAX.

In the old days, with 4 KByte ARG_MAX limits, this would have
bitten us pretty quickly.

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