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

You mean the warning "Argument list too long" ?
It's coming from your shell.

Edwin

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