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Re: Limits of grep?
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Then xargs won't work either, will it?
it might have - it'll have no problem reading the input (as it comes from
stdin) - but will not be able to exec the command with all argumentsat
once. however, it appears that GNU's xargs supports command-line options
to limit the number of arguments passed for each command invocation. see
xarg's man page for more info.
guy
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