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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:35:54 -0700
From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
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Subject: Re: modification to mkcygwget to overcome arg length limitation
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According to Lance Nehring on 3/22/2006 11:18 AM:
> Hi all,
> I tried to use the mkcygwget script to download a cygwin mirror for
> offline installation.  The mkcygwget script generates a script named
> cygwget to do the heavy lifting of retreiving files.   However, I got a
> "argument list too long" exception from wget, since the generated script
> has all the files to be downloaded appended to a single wget command.

Consider using xargs.  It is more efficient to collect as many arguments
as will fit to a single wget command than it is to spawn a separate wget
process for every filename.

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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