[Gllug] Poor scripting?!

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:37:07PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> John Edwards wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:01:54PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
>>> Ah, xargs --max-args should handle that though.
>> 
>> But won't that leave some directories unchanged as xargs with truncate
>> the list of directories that find supplies?
> 
> Hmm - I thought it just forked another target command to handle the excess:
> 
> cd /usr/share/doc; find . -type d | xargs --max-args=3 echo `date` "$*" 
> | head
> 
> Yep, or have I misunderstood what you meant?

No, you're right.

I didn't realised that xargs could run multiple consecutive commands
when manpage said:
    --max-args=max-args, -n max-args
        Use  at  most  max-args  arguments per command line. 

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