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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/15
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In article <33033173.6EC9@mds.lmco.com>, rex.r.reges@lmco.com wrote:


>The problem with command line input on Unix is that it does 
>require arbitrarily long string inputs.  For example, when
>the command "grep -i find_me *" is issued, the asterisk 
>must be replaced by the names of all of the files in the current
>directory before the command is passed to grep.  

But isn't that what the command xargs is used for?

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