Re: argument list too long

[Wojciech Puchar]

one can easily write:

        find . -name '*.ogg' | \
        while read file ; do \
                blah "${file}"
        done
xargs(1) is another popular tool for processing large argument lists:

        find -name '*.ogg' | xargs blah

unless program "blah" starts slowly, and it's better to give it 2000 
params at once.

but i've asked to be sure what is actual limit, and used xargs -n 2000 to 
do the rest.

thank you
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