Re: Argument list too long.

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris redhat com>]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:

>I just gave you an example where it isn't very practical to use xargs 
>because you have to type your passphrase multiple times. Automating that 
>however would make it even more ugly, and all that because I can only have 
>128Kb in arguments. You see how silly computers can be ;)

That isn't an argument in favour of increasing the commandline 
size, it's an argument in favour of filing a bug report / 
enhancement request against rpm or whatever application to allow 
it to read filenames from a text file instead.


-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat