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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pipes?

From: Brian May
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Pipes?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:04:16 +1100
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>>>>> "Pierce" == Pierce T Wetter <address@hidden> writes:

    Pierce>   I can easily think of cases where someone would want to
    Pierce> pass more arguments to tla then can fig in a command
    Pierce> line...

xargs copes with this situation, by default it will repeatedly call
the command with the maximum number of arguments each time, until it
runs out of arguments.
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Brian May <address@hidden>
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