Beware xargs security holes

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Oct9.172621.13484 at cbnews.att.com> lml at cbnews.att.com (L. Mark Larsen) writes:
> I never much cared for xargs since it limits you to an argument list of
> only 470 bytes.

Surely this is an implementation detail. After all, xargs is almost as much
of a no-brainer command as echo. If you don't like it fix it... it's just
an efficiency consideration anyway.
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