-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-03-26 at 22:50 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
By doing this, xargs essentially "batches up" maximal (w.r.t. the argument size limit) sets of file names and invokes rm only as many times as necessary.
Randall, that has got to be one of the coolest pieces of advice I've seen here. "man xargs" doesn't even mention it.
huh? It's what xargs does. It's the basic functionality of the program
But the thing is, the xarg's man page does not clearly say that it joins arguments up to the size limit. There are hints that concurs with that fact, but it is not clearly stated :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH6s7atTMYHG2NR9URAvllAKCS9G9fDbXu3LZg1fvLyEml8hHAkQCfbVfS niW4dygW7whZkazeC7YN1JY= =BQ1j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org