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On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 22:26 -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > Cole Tuininga wrote: > > I believe that using "echo" instead, would not have such a problem. > > I don't see why. It still depends on passing an argument, which the > shell expands, on the command line. My (possibly incorrect) thought was that, as "echo" is a shell builtin (depending on the shell of course), this portion of the command would be executed within the context of the shell rather than forking off an external process and trying to pass a list of arguments that was too long. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >> A: Top-posting. >>> Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? Cole Tuininga [hidden email] http://www.code-energy.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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