On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 19:06, Brian Gough wrote: > Generally it is the number of arguments that is the issue. There is > usually a way to increase the limit with a kernel parameter (via > smitty chgsys on AIX, I think). arg lists are generally the shell not system. If you can figure out a script name you could try switching the #!/bin/sh line to your bash line. ksh (sh in aix generally) has a 1k or 2k limit whereas bash has 4k. You could also tweak the script to use xargs if appropriate. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer