Argument list too long

[Todd Zullinger]

Robin Laing wrote:
> With the number of multimedia files on computers, this is becoming
> an issue.  Many applications don't know how to work with xargs by
> default.  Maybe it is time to start putting in bug reports for these
> applications.

Just out of curiosity, what sort of apps are you thinking of that have
problems with xargs?  Are you talking about apps that call out to a
shell and don't take care not to pass more than ARG_MAX?  Or are there
apps that just can't use xargs for some reason?

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