Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008)

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Mon, February 11, 2008 7:25 pm, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>
> > > We have a solution (file limit) that doesn't address the problem (rm
> > > just doesn't work sometimes).
> > >
> > > Wasn't one of the slogans for DragonFly "Dragging BSD Unix, kicking and
> > > screaming, into the 21st century"?
> > Sorry, I don't follow you there.  Could you elaborate?
>
> We have two problems:
> - excess memory usage by handling too many files at once.
> - rm, ls, and other common programs will fail when handling many files.
>
> xargs is a workaround for tiny memory spaces we don't have any more.  I'm

I use xargs very often. I'd like to have a special pipe (lets assume 
it's called "|/" here) that works like xargs built-in.

find . -name "*.c" |/ rm -f "%"

Hehe, I'm not serious, but if this would be a built-in feature of 
/bin/sh, everyone would use it and no one would argue for increasing the
execv limit ;-)

Regards,

  Michael