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> xargs does have limits on input length what?

• btashton 9y ago
  Yeah they can be as low as 4096 bytes. `xargs --show-limits`
• sitharus 9y ago
  Some versions of xargs don't respect the shell's max argument length, so on older platforms (MacOS X 10.4 sticks out in my memory) it's easy to cause xargs to try invoking with a longer command line than permitted. This is fixed with the `-n` argument to xargs, which lets you specify the number of arguments per invocation.