Re: Argument list too long

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Robin Laing wrote:

With the number of multimedia files on computers, this is becoming
an issue.

It has never been correct to assume that an expanded list of filenames will fit on a command line. Having a large number of files is not a new concept.

Applications that call another routine or process files in the background. I don't know if they have a problem with xargs but they have a problem with "Argument list too long" errors when using them. How do you call xargs from a GUI application?

You can find bad programming practices and incorrect assumptions in a lot of places. I'd look for a smarter application.

I have tried to use xargs before but not much luck. Lack of time to play and learn how to pipe everything in the correct way. I have only learned about xargs a short while ago.

It's not a new program. Plus, applications can do their own opendir()/readdir() operations if they want to be able to handle unlimited streams of filenames.

My point in my other post is for new users, this is a real pain to deal with. In this day and age, it shouldn't be an issue as memory is now much cheaper and larger than the days when this limit was put into place.

But there is no real limit on what you can have on your disks - or what the size of a wildcard expansion might be.

--
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux