[TriLUG] Limit to command line arguments?

[Warren Myers]

Can you do something along the lines of <progname> *.CAD?

WMM

On 10/22/05, Randall Barlow <rpbarlow at eos.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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