From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gid doc? Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:56:59 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <841xzcui78.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052252969 20248 80.91.224.249 (6 May 2003 20:29:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 20:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 22:29:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19D93h-0005F3-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 22:29:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19D8AG-0000pY-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2003 15:31:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e9a2.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e9a2.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.233.162) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052249345 17668871 217.225.233.162 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AC6LIob9tjWDc+adOlU2Cf+w7T8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112860 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9359 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9359 brian.auld@adic.com writes: > 4) Built ID database (from kernel source root dir): > find . -name "*.[chyCHY]" | xargs mkid xargs reads some file names from stdin, invokes mkid with them, then reads more file names, invokes mkid again. So what will happen is this: mkid file1 ... file100 mkid file101 ... file200 mkid file201 file202 file203 This is assuming that xargs reads chunks of 100 file names each and there are 203 files. Does mkid overwrite its database on each call? -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)