Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Argument list too long: out of environment space | Date | Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:37:20 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Stuart Inglis <stuart@intelligenesis.net> said:
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> Usually I get around problems like this by passing `echo *` into head or > tail +N etc. xargs isn't an option due to the massive startup times of > our custom commands.
If they are custom, they can surely be rewritten to take a list of files to process on stdin. Then you go:
ls | run-some-custom-command -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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