Argument list too long.

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Thu Sep 11 16:14:30 UTC 2003


>>>>> "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.

Tom





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