From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 9:50:45 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 07F2E37B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 09:50:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 49196 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Nov 2000 17:50:37 -0000 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:50:37 +0100 From: Sebastiaan van Erk To: Zero Sum Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: argument list too long Message-ID: <20001118185037.A41305@sebster.com> References: <20001116122313.A69018@sebster.com> <00111722151204.01989@shalimar.net.au> <20001117125652.A91692@sebster.com> <00111810180600.08749@shalimar.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00111810180600.08749@shalimar.net.au>; from count@shalimar.net.au on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:18:06AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zero Sum wrote: > > So things are still broken (as I try to explain above), and I still think > > it needs fixing (stdarg construction, or standard --args-from-file option > > or somesuch). > > > > I'll tell you again, and I see, I'm not the only one. Nothing is 'broken'. > Nothing needs fixing. 'stdargs' would break everything we have and require > a full and total rewrite. Well I'll let democracy run its course then, and I guess the ultra-conservative party wins. At least I learnt some things from this thread, among others that "rm *" is obviously a broken construction and you should use "find . -maxdepth 1 -delete" (which doesn't work on all UN*X systems either (Solaris doesn't support -maxdepth OR -delete)). So maybe the best solution, which is portable and always works is "simply" "find . | grep '^\./[^/]*$'". Oh well, I'll give up on this topic now. Greetings, Sebastiaan van Erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message