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Date: | Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:23:30 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25 |
Message-ID: | <20050905152330.GD609@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> |
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:46:05AM +0100, fergus wrote: >Just updated xargs from v.4.2.11-cvs to v.4.2.25 with installation of latest >findutils and I now find that > cat filelist | xargs md5sum >where filelist is a mere 1723 items long, now fails with > xargs: md5sum: Argument list too long >This did not happen with the previous version of xargs, which allowed a list >equal in length to the entire Cygwin provision (and much more under /home >and /usr/local) as in > find / | xargs md5sum >Anything I can do to recover the earlier generous behaviour? Thanks. Eric, I used to compile findutils with -DARG_MAX=150000 on the gcc command line to work around this problem. Undoubtedly there is a better way to do this, but maybe this is a hint as to what's wrong. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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