At 4:54 PM +0300 9/23/04, Putinas Piliponis wrote: > >>how about grep -r ou find | xargs grep ! > >but this is workaround - isn't it ? No, that is the solution which will work for any number of files, on any Unix-based system. No matter what we increase MAX_ARGS to, it still be possible that some users will have a good reason to need to process even more args. The `find' command takes a little time to get comfortable with, but it is a very useful utility program for some situations. I have hit the limits in Solaris, for instance, and one of the earlier messages claimed that Sun uses a value of 1meg for MAX_ARGS. I have nothing against the idea of increasing the value of MAX_ARGS, as long as people realize that increasing it will not solve the issue for all situations. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 16:28:06 UTC
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