On 19 Dec 2014, at 16:44, Bitbucket <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1 new commit in Cactus:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/cactuscode/cactus/commits/359b98096708/
> Changeset:   359b98096708
> Branch:      master
> User:        eschnett
> Date:        2014-12-19 15:44:04+00:00
> Summary:     Cactus: Replace xargs by for loop, since AIX cannot handle long 
> arguments to shell commands

I thought the entire purpose of xargs was to split up the command invocations 
so that each one did not exceed the maximum length?  It's also using "-n 1", so 
only one file should be processed at a time.  Also, doesn't the for loop suffer 
from the same problem?

-- 
Ian Hinder
http://members.aei.mpg.de/ianhin

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