In the last episode (Feb 27), Wojciech Puchar said:
>> 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.
That's less than xargs's default of 5000 :) The xargs manpage explains
it all.
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Dan Nelson
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