On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:37:03AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > xargs seems to be broken right now... > could someone reproduce the following sequence ? > > # uname -a > FreeBSD gits 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #15: Sun Jun 23 06:31:23 CEST 2002 >root@gits:/disk2/freebsd/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM i386 > # ident /usr/bin/xargs > /usr/bin/xargs: > $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.c,v 1.9.2.3 2002/06/17 04:44:46 jmallett Exp $ > $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/xargs/strnsubst.c,v 1.5.2.1 2002/06/17 04:44:46 jmallett >Exp $ > # cd /home/ncvs > # find ports -type d | grep -v Attic | sort -u > /tmp/p > # cd /usr > # xargs ls -d < /tmp/p > xargs: ls: Argument list too long
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