Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > also note that you must quote the wildcard '*.txt' to prevent shell > expantion, but I feel the example stands bugs and all. Using xargs or > for i in `find . -name '*.txt'` can result in stack overflows if there > are alot of file (I don't know howmany, but it happened to me before > somewhere aroud 1700 files, so I'm betting on 1024 as the breaking > point, though it may be more or less)
The linux kernel has a maximum command line length of 131k or so (ARG_MAX). However, xargs should never tickle that limit; it exists to avoid it after all. -- see shy jo
