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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Beware xargs security holes
Message-ID: <.PB6I58@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 10 Oct 90 15:54:00 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.060954.25690@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <63404@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Oct9.172621.13484@cbnews.att.com>
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In article <1990Oct9.172621.13484@cbnews.att.com> lml@cbnews.att.com (L. Mark Larsen) writes:
> I never much cared for xargs since it limits you to an argument list of
> only 470 bytes.

Surely this is an implementation detail. After all, xargs is almost as much
of a no-brainer command as echo. If you don't like it fix it... it's just
an efficiency consideration anyway.
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