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From: "Alin Năstac" <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: lastrite: dev-cpp/libherdstat and app-portage/herdstat
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:54:21
Message-Id: 484C54FB.1000808@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: lastrite: dev-cpp/libherdstat and app-portage/herdstat by flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > Alin Năstac <mrness@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >> According to my local copy, we have 12876 metadata.xml files.
6 >> Something tells me that your command line will exceed the maximum
7 >> command line length supported by any shell ;)
8 >>
9 >
10 > I actually checked before saying that :) Both zsh and bash on my system
11 > can get that command line going just fine.
12 >
13 > I was sure of that already because I use very often egrep $something
14 > */*/*.ebuild to scan the tree for particular stuff.
15 >
16 >
17 I remember that one time I had to split a command like dohtml
18 "${S}"/something/*.{png,html} because the line was too long. At that
19 time, bash had a limit of 32K. Now is what ... 1M?

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