Re: Argument list too long.

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

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:

>> >Seems plausible but unpractical in some situations. Eg. you're resigning
>> >thousands of files, too long for the argument list. Doing it one by one 
>> >would force you to enter your passphrase a thousand times.
>> 
>> xargs isn't called once per argument, so you wouldn't do it 1000 
>> times.  A few times perhaps.  Red Hat signs tonnes of RPM 
>> packages, and we never seem to have a problem with this.  ;o)
>
>You people aren't using a passphrase ? ;)

Of course there is a passphrase.

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