On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 13:21 -0700, jack craig wrote: > you might consider piping your echo $w | xargs... [Please don't top-post. See the Guidelines]. How would that help? The problem isn't that an argument stack is overflowing but that the Shell itself is running out of memory. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines