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xargs
, or break it.
Please try unsetting some environment variables, or exiting the
current shell. You can also use ‘xargs --show-limits’ to
understand the relevant sizes.
xargs
doesn't have
enough space to build a command line because it has read a really
large item and it doesn't fit. You can probably work around this
problem with the ‘-s’ option, but the default size is pretty
large. This is a rare situation and is more likely an attempt to test
the limits of xargs
, or break it. Otherwise, you will need to
try to shorten the problematic argument or not use xargs
.
find
.
xargs
exits with status 255, xargs
is supposed to stop. If this is not what you intended, wrap the
program you are trying to invoke in a shell script which doesn't
return status 255.
find
.