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Re: refactoring when using CVS
From: |
Noel Yap |
Subject: |
Re: refactoring when using CVS |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:59:44 -0800 (PST) |
--- Kaz Kylheku <address@hidden> wrote:
> In article
> <address@hidden>, Noel Yap
> wrote:
> >--- Kaz Kylheku <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> find . -name '*.java' -print0 | xargs -0 javac
> >
> >Keep in mind that since xargs has a size limit, you
> >may wind up doing a little more recompilation than
> >necessary.
> >
> >I prefer the back quote method under a
> >shell with no command length limitation and
> forbidding
> >spaces and special characters in file names.
>
> It's your OS kernel that imposes the limitation, not
> the shell. The
> limitation is on how much argv[] and env[] crap can
> be passed to
> a child process.
>
> So the backquote method will simply blow up if that
> limit is exceeded.
This is interesting. I'll have to keep this in mind.
But my experience is that some shells have a smaller
command line length limitation than others. And I've
never hit a command line length limitation in the
shells I prefer.
Noel
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- RE: refactoring when using CVS, (continued)
- Re: refactoring when using CVS, Kaz Kylheku, 2002/02/21
- Re: refactoring when using CVS, Kaz Kylheku, 2002/02/22
- RE: refactoring when using CVS, Thornley, David, 2002/02/22
- RE: refactoring when using CVS, Christopher Randall, 2002/02/22
- RE: refactoring when using CVS, Glew, Andy, 2002/02/25
- RE: refactoring when using CVS, Glew, Andy, 2002/02/25