On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:27:46PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:24:14PM -0700, Dave Margolis wrote: > > great explaination, gracias. is there ever a chance that the set of > > information piped off to xargs could become too big? > > Nope! That's the nice thing about xargs. Notice how you're piping into > xargs. It just reads from stdin, and says "okay, I just read 500 items, > I'll send that list to 'rm'"... then it reads in more, and calls "rm" > a second time. And so on... > > 'man xargs' for the gorey details.
according to the man page, the 500 items thing is true only if you use the -P switch. Which is a good thing: because I wouldn't want that behavior with, for example, mv. -- Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
