Re: Argument list too long: out of environment space

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Stuart Inglis <stuart@intelligenesis.net> said:

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> Usually I get around problems like this by passing `echo *` into head or
> tail +N etc. xargs isn't an option due to the massive startup times of
> our custom commands.

If they are custom, they can surely be rewritten to take a list of files
to process on stdin. Then you go:

   ls | run-some-custom-command

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