PS re google

[Michele Dondi]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Brendan McKay wrote:

>> Indeed it's not the 'ls oesi*' part that is causing any problem, but the
>> '...' one. This is why in these situations it's customary to do
>>
>>   ls oeis* | while read f; do ...; done
>> that reads line by line (if that is applicable - and I think so).
>
> This information is not correct! The problem is that (most editions
> of) Unix allow a fixed maximum amount of memory for parameter lists
> of processes. It is a kernel configuration parameter.

You're right, sorry! (I'd still use 'while' on the output of find as 
correctly suggested by someone else.)


Michele
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