Peter da Silva wrote: > On Aug 1, 2007, at 17:02, David Cantrell wrote: >> What's hateful is the shell or OS (I can't be bothered to remember >> which) which makes it necessary - namely the limitation on how long your >> command line can be. Without that, xargs need not exist and so would be >> free of hate. > > An unlimited command line is impossible, and hideously inefficient. > Eventually you'll run out of VM building the command line, no matter how > much VM you have. You have to get away from the whole concept of the > command line to resolve that problem.
I have an "unlimited" scrollback history option on my Terminal and somehow the universe has not yet imploded. Do we really have to suffix every use of "unlimited" with "up to the limitations of memory and hard drive space"? Its the 21st century. Dynamically allocated memory ain't exactly rocket science. C programs that still think it is, now that's hateful.
