Argument list too long.

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Sat Sep 13 09:56:10 UTC 2003


On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:
> >>
> >> >I'm not in favor to increase it to 64 per se, but at least something 
> >> >higher than 32 (as I've already come across this boundary at several 
> >> >occassions where the only solution was to work around it in a bad way).
> >> 
> >> man xargs
> >
> >Seems plausible but unpractical in some situations. Eg. you're resigning
> >thousands of files, too long for the argument list. Doing it one by one 
> >would force you to enter your passphrase a thousand times.
> 
> xargs isn't called once per argument, so you wouldn't do it 1000 
> times.  A few times perhaps.  Red Hat signs tonnes of RPM 
> packages, and we never seem to have a problem with this.  ;o)

You people aren't using a passphrase ? ;)

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