Argument list too long.

[Dag Wieers]

On 11 Sep 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "Dag" == Dag Wieers <dag at 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.

Ok, then I'm on the right list afterall ;)

Please Red Hat change rpm so that I can sign packages without giving them 
as arguments and without having to enter my passphrase for each (set of) 
packages.

This seems really silly to me however and this was just an example. Fact 
is that most scripts suffer from this and as usual people will only notice 
this when the script fails (with potential data-loss, manual correction 
and other horrible things). </scare-tactics>

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