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Re: Argument list too long.



>>>>> "Dag" == Dag Wieers <dag wieers com> writes:

>> man xargs

Dag> Seems plausible but unpractical in some situations. Eg. you're resigning
Dag> thousands of files, too long for the argument list. Doing it one by one 
Dag> would force you to enter your passphrase a thousand times.

Occasionally you have to change a program to let you specify a list of
arguments in some other way.  For instance, this came up for libtool
with very large numbers of object files.

Tom




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