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| author | James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> | 2011-06-05 00:14:09 +0100 |
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| committer | James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> | 2011-06-05 01:10:37 +0100 |
| commit | 411fbef03b1e2a2990fe5e51e412d9298cec6614 (patch) | |
| tree | ca4fba689ae2e0937079bf2bd2df82e3b12b23db | |
| parent | d52e2ffbd14a8d0d8219903650b8eeb12c5bd7fe (diff) | |
| download | findutils-411fbef03b1e2a2990fe5e51e412d9298cec6614.tar.gz | |
Update xargs error message.
* doc/find.texi (Error Messages From xargs): the message "can not
fit single argument within argument list size limit" is now
"argument list too long".
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/find.texi | 11 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2011-06-05 James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> + + Update xargs error message. + * doc/find.texi (Error Messages From xargs): the message "can not + fit single argument within argument list size limit" is now + "argument list too long". + 2011-06-04 James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> Use the gnulib byteswap and uname modules. diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi index 5d9b096c..70ff60f1 100644 --- a/doc/find.texi +++ b/doc/find.texi @@ -5529,15 +5529,22 @@ Please try unsetting some environment variables, or exiting the current shell. You can also use @samp{xargs --show-limits} to understand the relevant sizes. -@item can not fit single argument within argument list size limit +@item argument list too long You are using the @samp{-I} option and @code{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 +large item and it doesn't fit. You may be able to work around this problem with the @samp{-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 @code{xargs}, or break it. Otherwise, you will need to try to shorten the problematic argument or not use @code{xargs}. +@item argument line too long +You are using the @samp{-L} or @samp{-l} option and one of the input +lines is too long. You may be able to work around this problem with +the @samp{-s} option, but the default size is pretty large. If you +can modify the your @code{xargs} command not to use @samp{-L} or +@samp{-l}, that will be more likely to result in success. + @item cannot fork See the description of the similar message for @code{find}. |