[darcs-users] Re: a bash tip for easily excluding the _darcs directory

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Steven,

> Note how it mentions running the command "one or more times." I now
> see that the command can run more than once as a consequence of the
> --max-args and --max-chars arguments. That's a nice design.

If it only run the command once, stuffing all the arguments in in one
go, then

    find | xargs foo

would be no better than

    foo `find`

Cheers,


Ralph.