On 2018-03-20 11:34, Peter Sj??berg wrote:
> On 2018-03-16 11:39 AM, Brett Delmage wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, J C Nash wrote:
> >
> >> This may introduce a tangent, but I find the limit is often not the
> >> coded one but issues related to
> >> - getting 250 characters into the line and not r
On 2018-03-16 09:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> course i taught recently had a section on "xargs", emphasizing its
> value(?) in being able to run a command in bite-size pieces but, these
> days, is that really that much of an issue?
>
> IIRC (and i might not), the historical limiting fac
On 2018-03-16 11:39 AM, Brett Delmage wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, J C Nash wrote:
>
>> This may introduce a tangent, but I find the limit is often not the
>> coded one but issues related to
>> - getting 250 characters into the line and not remembering whether the
>> parameter should be X or x
