On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:28:22PM -0500, Jason Crawford wrote:
> Well in the case of /usr/src, I think you must MIGHT hit the maximum
> argument length for the shell by using xargs, unless you did it inside
> of each directory in /usr/src. That and well, explaining xargs to Dave
> will end up leading to another 20+ mail thread....
xargs runs the command multiple times when it hits this limit:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jot 0 | xargs echo | sed 's/ .*//'
1
5001
10001
15001
20001
25001
^C
The manual tries to describe this behavior:
Any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility
upon
each invocation, followed by some number of the arguments read from
stan-
dard input. The utility is repeatedly executed one or more times until
standard input is exhausted.
-Ray-
