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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Look!  An xargs!! (Re: recursive grep)
Message-ID: <10967@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Sep 89 05:05:02 GMT
References: <666@lakart.UUCP> <1641@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <7774@cbmvax.UUCP> <16816@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1126@virtech.UUCP> <2404@wyse.wyse.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2404@wyse.wyse.com> bob@wyse.UUCP (Bob McGowen Wyse Technology Training) writes:
->Yet another non-solution.  This one does not handle the problem where the
->list of arguments exceeds the maximum length (usually 5120 bytes). 
-	if [ `echo $args|wc -c` -gt 3000 ]
-	then
-	    $* $args
-	fi

Worse and worse.  Now it does nothing at all when there are a lot of
arguments (which is usually the case for "xargs"!).