Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:04:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation. > > > You may have longer arg lists if you use Solaris ;-) > > > > > > You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} + > > > > ah, thank you - I just copied from Neil (and had a look into the > > manpage which uses the same line more or less). > > I've only used that command with smaller directories, where the > limitation doesn't occur. find -exec does the job but is rather slow. > Piping through xargs is faster and the limitations Joerg mentions, like > spaces in filenames, don't apply in the case of */lib.
Please try to inform yourself about execplus in order to learn that this is the only unlimited was to do the job. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
