[plug] trying to use emacs "tags" facility

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:10:17PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Derek Fountain wrote:
> 
> > find . -name "*.[ch]" | xargs etags -a
> 
> or
> 
> zsh%  etags **/*.[ch]

What happens when the arg list gets too long?  Does this get split into
more than one etags run, or does it fail like the bash example below?

> Is there a way to do this in bash?

  etags $(find . -name '*.[ch]')

Which is not quite the same thing, I know.


> Does bash do anything that zsh can't?

??



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