Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased?

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:29, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> That shouldn't matter, since the -0 argument to xargs tells it to
> expect NUL characters *instead* of spaces or newlines.  As long as NUL
> characters aren't allowed in filenames, it should work. :)

I was commenting on the pipe to a read inside a while loop (which was neat :)

> Note that there's still a chance that the program actually called by
> xargs doesn't handle newlines or other weird characters in filenames
> properly, though...

Yeah.. unlikely unless it's a shell script which does strange things tho.

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