Argument list too long.
Mike A. Harris
mharris at redhat.com
Sat Sep 13 08:13:39 UTC 2003
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.
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