On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:24:14PM -0700, Dave Margolis wrote: > great explaination, gracias. is there ever a chance that the set of > information piped off to xargs could become too big?
Nope! That's the nice thing about xargs. Notice how you're piping into xargs. It just reads from stdin, and says "okay, I just read 500 items, I'll send that list to 'rm'"... then it reads in more, and calls "rm" a second time. And so on... 'man xargs' for the gorey details. -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
