On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:15:51 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is worth noting, however, that there are usually fairly easy ways
> to work with huge lists of command-line arguments. Instead of writing
> things like this, for example:
>
> for file in *.ogg ; do
> blah "${file}"
> done
I've seen loops like this suggested as an alternative to
blah *.ogg
and the two cases are clearly different, because in the loop you only
pass one argument to "blah", and the limitation is in how much space
the shell will allow for the expansion of *.ogg. I've not hit this
limit with /bin/sh. Anyone know what it is?
> one can easily write:
>
> find . -name '*.ogg' | \
> while read file ; do \
> blah "${file}"
> done
If blah is interactive, it will try to take its input from the pipe
instead of the terminal. Is there a way around this? (I know xargs can
handle it with -o)
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