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From: Tom Duff td@pix...
Subject: [9fans] Find command
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 16:20:40 -0700

On Sep 2,  5:20pm, Scott Schwartz wrote:
> "Tom Duff" <td@pix...> writes:
> | or, since ls already loops over its arguments
>
> The main pitfall of the backquote operatator is that there's a limit on
> the size of argv. Hence xargs.

The only limit on arglist size in plan 9 is
total virtual memory available.  I have
trouble believing that any serious application
has ever exceeded that.  Hence plan 9 is
delivered sans xargs.

-- 
Tom Duff.  Void where prohibited.