Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

["Mickaël Bucas" <mbucas@gmail.com>]

2009/6/9 Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
>
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> >
> > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> > zsh: argument list too long: qfile
>
> 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 {} +
>
> Jörg
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The right way to handle any size for the list returned by "find", is
by using "xargs" :

find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans

"xargs" fills the command line up to the maximum size, and then create
another command line.

Mickaël Bucas