On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:04:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

> > This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation.
> > You may have longer arg lists if you use Solaris ;-)
> >
> > You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} +  
> 
> ah, thank you - I just copied from Neil (and had a look into the
> manpage which uses the same line more or less).

I've only used that command with smaller directories, where the
limitation doesn't occur. find -exec does the job but is rather slow.
Piping through xargs is faster and the limitations Joerg mentions, like
spaces in filenames, don't apply in the case of */lib.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

All general statements are false.