On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 17:13 -0600, Phil Muldoon wrote: > I can't be sure but I think the merge automatically deletes the > destination "merge to" database, so there theoretically could be an > issue with the size of the argument list provided from the ls . to xargs > there. Not sure if this is something we should worry about in reality or > not Oh, yes, you're right. gcj-dbtool seems to create a temporary db and then copies it on top of the real one once complete. Given that, I think this would work: DB=`gcj-dbtool -p` rm -f $DB gcj-dbtool -n $DB (cd $DB.d; ls . | xargs gcj-dbtool -m $DB $DB) [note the extra $DB on that last line] AG
