Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4320281B.6090005@lists.cichon.com> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:01:31 +0200 From: Public Mailing Lists User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xargs still nok? References: <20050908102658.GC5555@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20050908102658.GC5555@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>GNU xargs version 4.2.25 >> >>or more likely am I misusing xargs? >> >>$ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host >>bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long >> >> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Nothing to do with xargs. Use find instead of ls/w wildcards. > > yes, you should rather write $ find . -name "*.cfm" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i host -- 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/