[TriLUG] Scripting & C++ question

[Kevin Otte]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:51:31PM -0500, Mark Freeze wrote:
> On 11/11/05, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> > Try:  "ls /home/mark/programs/cpp | xargs ./arg_test"

Please bear in mind that there is an upper limit to the number of command
line parameters.  This is mitigated by xargs, but doing something like:

ls *

will cause the * to be expanded by the shell and hit this limit.

For the full gory details see the relevant TriLUG discussion at:
http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20051017/038048.html

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