[TriLUG] Limit to command line arguments?

[Randall Barlow]

I looked at xargs, and you are right.  I really do need to discritize 
~350 CAD files all at once, not in several runs.  I will try and see if 
the command shell can handle 350 arguments.  Some say it can and others 
say it can't.  But I do have the option of reading an input file if 
necessary, so no worries, just more coding!  Thanks for all the helpful 
and informative responses, TriLUG is awesome!

Randy

Rick DeNatale wrote:

> I don't think that xargs will help in this case. It really helps if
>
>the program getting the arguments treats all of the arguments in the
>same way and  it doesn't matter if you process the arguments in
>chunks.  However, in a follow up to a question the OP described his
>program as:
>
>    It's a program that takes .STL CAD files as input as discritizes the
>    solids in 3D space.
>
>Which sounds to me as though it needs ALL of the arguments at once, or
>at the very least the arguments would need to be chunked intelligently
>so that the arguments related to a particular solid don't get split
>between two invocations.  Unless we're talking about 300 cad files, in
>which case I'll do my Emily Latella impression. <G>
>
>It seems to me that the original question is one of those which needs
>to be "unasked" (does anyone still read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
>Maintenance" anymore?).  That much data really should be fed to the
>program either via a file or stdin.
>
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