In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Last time I read the xargs documentation it stated that using '\0' as an > input separator would also tell it to pass at most one argument to the > command.
> echo -en "a\0b\0c" | xargs -t -0 echo echo a b c a b c > echo -en "a\0b\0c" | xargs -t -s 8 -0 echo echo a a echo b b echo c c looks like it has changed, the default is to fill up the command line even with the -0 arg, unless maxline length is specified. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

