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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers UNIX: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long Post 302326576 by otheus on Thursday 18th of June 2009 08:33:01 AM
Old 06-18-2009
If your command is something like this:
Code:
compress *

Replace it with
Code:
ls -1 |xargs compress

But if your command is something like one of
Code:
compress *.txt
compress 2009-*

Then you need to first use "find" (for the first example)
Code:

find . -name "*.txt" -print | xargs compress

 

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