[MLUG] xargs: Argument list too long

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I'm using Cygwin on Windows XP and getting this error:

xargs: /path/to/id3.exe: Argument list too long

It's coming from a command that looks like this:

$ find . -name \*.[Mm][Pp]3 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ~/bin/id3.exe -M -12 -c "source: 1"

"find" only comes up with 946 files, which is a relatively small number, 
so I don't understand the cause of this problem.  I used the same command 
under Cygwin on an XP x64 machine and it didn't come up with this error 
even though there were definitely several times as many files identified 
by "find".

Any ideas?

I was able to partition it up and make it work like this:

$ find ./[A-E]* ...
$ find ./[F-G]* ...
$ find ./[H-M]* ...
$ find ./[N-Z]* ...

Seems like it shouldn't be necessary to do that!

Mike

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