Re: xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread Bob McGowan
michael wrote: Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single run? eg if I run find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd and find gives more than circa 20k chars then it appears that ls is run multip

Re: xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:39:06PM +, michael wrote: > Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find > and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single > run? > > eg if I run > find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd > and find gives more than

Re: xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:39:06PM +, michael wrote: > Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find > and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single > run? > > eg if I run > find . -name 'me*' -pr

xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread michael
Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single run? eg if I run find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd and find gives more than circa 20k chars then it appears that ls is run multiple times with the