Ivan on Nostr: Every time I’d reach for `xargs` in a shell pipeline crunching a lot of inputs ...

Every time I’d reach for `xargs` in a shell pipeline crunching a lot of inputs I’d always worry about there being too many arguments and blowing past the system exec limits, and manually try to limit invocations with a guesstimate of how many max args to use

Except I just learned that `xargs` can not only inspect the system and figure out how many args to use safely, it does it *by default*!

Easily one of my favorite utilities that went up in my list today