Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:04:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
> > > This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation.
> > > You may have longer arg lists if you use Solaris ;-)
> > >
> > > You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} +
> >
> > ah, thank you - I just copied from Neil (and had a look into the
> > manpage which uses the same line more or less).
>
> I've only used that command with smaller directories, where the
> limitation doesn't occur. find -exec does the job but is rather slow.
> Piping through xargs is faster and the limitations Joerg mentions, like
> spaces in filenames, don't apply in the case of */lib.
Please try to inform yourself about execplus in order to learn that this is the
only unlimited was to do the job.
Jörg
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