From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 14: 8:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eeyore.sebster.com (e163161.upc-e.chello.nl [213.93.163.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5053937B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 62650 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Nov 2000 22:08:34 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:08:34 +0100 From: Sebastiaan van Erk To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: argument list too long Message-ID: <20001116230834.A59437@sebster.com> References: <20001116091607.A97857@sebster.com> <00111621362707.00522@shalimar.net.au> <20001116122313.A69018@sebster.com> <00111700205500.61931@shalimar.net.au> <20001116145641.A22842@sebster.com> <20001116105654.G830@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001116105654.G830@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:56:54AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Can you please suggest a reasonable limit to the argument list? I cannot, because as my previous mails clearly indicated, any limit is in my opinion not reasonable. > Would a gigabyte work for you? > maybe. See above. > Will that cover all mega-long arg lists? > no. Indeed. Exactly right. It won't! > Solution: > use xargs. Nope. Again, this is not a solution, it's a workaround. Solution: infinite lists. They have them in all major programming languages. At least, they're as big as you need them to be, if you have enough hardware. :-) > bye, > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." Greetings, Sebastiaan van Erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message