Marcus Rueckert schrieb: > On 2006-01-20 09:21:21 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > >>Yes, you could be running out of space on the command-line - 32K is the >>bash default I think. I started out using -exec some years back, but >>quickly switched to xargs or piping into >>'while read f; do .... ; done'. > > no you cant. xargs takes care that the cmdline wont be too long.
Not really. Many programs (including grep) have a commandline length limitation which is lower than usual. xargs can't know that and will regularly make grep barf if you use it to the extreme. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
