Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 05:01:39PM -0700, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>       desktop:~/prog/p4gw/cms 3011> ctags `tla inventory -s`
>       /usr/local/bin/ctags: Argument list too long.
> 
>       I suppose since this version of ctags has an option to avoid 
> clobbering the tags file on a second invocation, I can use 
> xargs...unless there's whitespace or something in a filename somewhere.

Slightly off-topic, but xargs doesn't have any problem with typical
whitespace in file names; the main issue is _newlines_ in filenames.

-Miles
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