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Ok, so it's for all commands, not just the one.

Mikhail Morfikov
– Mikhail Morfikov

2015-06-15 09:44:19 +00:00
Commented Jun 15, 2015 at 9:44
The limit is one for the current shell, for the current command line. If you open many shells each will have this limit. xargs will call rm as many times as necessary, distributing the many file names that are fed to it by the find command such that the limit is not exceeded (each of the rm commands will be limited by the commandline length limit).

Ned64
– Ned64

2015-06-15 09:53:47 +00:00
Commented Jun 15, 2015 at 9:53

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