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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: wildcards with unix shells
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:35:43 +0100
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Markus E Leypold wrote:

> This is, forgive me, wrong. The "commandline" in Unix is a an array of
> pointers to zero-terminated strings which itself is terminated by a
> null pointer.

With a total length of 8k on Windows and 48k on current Linux version -
as "./confiure" will be glad to tell you. Which is the reason why

rm -rf /tmp/*

might not work. Really one should allways use find and xarg...

Martin
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