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		silon42 on Oct 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acq... It would have to be a stream anyway, so you could do it for your program by using a fd=3, like: prog 3<input_args or by using a here-document prog 3<<END args END

amelius on Oct 11, 2021 [–]

What if I wanted to do "cat * > ../data.txt" without using special commands designed for large numbers of files?

PaulDavisThe1st on Oct 11, 2021 | [–]

One-by-one processing:

find $start [ criteria ] --exec cat {} \; >> ../data.txt

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