You've never used grep on even 100 files? I often pass many hundreds of arguments to command-line programs.

But then, with a phrase like "four or five seems a bit on the outrageous side", I suspect that I have little idea what is really being talked about in the root node. :)

Sometimes i wonder if a reply by you is an honor or a penalty.

I think you mean something like: ./foo.pl a b c d e f g h (and many more).

And me: ./foo.pl -a nose -b cuke -c foo -d bar | ./bar -t -A -e (and many more).

"...a phrase like "four or five seems a bit on the outrageous side", I suspect that I have little idea what is really being talked about.."

Aha. I see it clearly now. That means i don't have a little idea?

Anyway, my best regards, Karl

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karlgoethebier:

I think it's more like this:

find /some/place -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ./foo.pl
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I've already done that a dozen times today. I'd agree that typing in very many arguments by hand would be a PITA, but quite a few of us automate our already-automated tasks.

...roboticus

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