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[Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

It's only necessary when you have the possibility of a lot of
parameters. My guess is 32k. Should you desire to know the exact number,
here's a one liner for you:
( f() { [[ $1 -eq $# ]] && echo "$1==$#"; } ; let i=2; arg="1"; while :
; do arg="$i ${arg}"; f $arg || break; let i++; done )
That should stop when the number of args is wrong. We may use xargs in a
place or two now, where it makes things easier to understand.

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 17:42, Eric Sandall wrote:
> I just saw a brief article[0] on linux.com about xargs and am wondering if 
> that
> might help our Sorcery team (though from what I remember at least some of 
> them
> already know about it ;)).
> 
> [0] http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/13/211209
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