[GRLUG] globbing

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:49:32AM -0400, Steve Romanow wrote:
> I think this is pretty typical on all the unix's I am aware of.  The shell
> is just a program, and the developer had to choose a size for how long a
> command to accept and parse.
> 
> When globbing, it is easy to pass this limit.  The xargs solution the
> support person mentioned is the default answer IMO.

Wow.  This whole thread just came into focus for me.  Thanks!
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