Ah-ha! Okay!  I took "works exactly like xargs" a little too literally and
didn't read the docs closely enough.

As always, thanks for your help guys!

*Zach Riggle*


On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 5:56 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 6, 2021, at 5:58 PM, Zach Riggle wrote:
> > A very simple test works exactly correct, but a slight variation gives
> > me "zargs: argument list too long":
>
> From your gist:
>
> > # Works
> > zargs -P12 -n1 -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 --
> wrapper1
>
> > # Does not work --> zrgs: argument list too long
> > zargs -P12 -n1 -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 --
> wrapper2 double
>
> From zshcontrib(1):
>
>     zargs [ option ... -- ] [ input ... ] [ -- command [ arg ... ] ]
>
>         [...]
>
>         The options -i, -I, -l, -L, and -n differ slightly from their
>         usage in `xargs`.  There are no input lines for `zargs` to
>         count, so -l and -L count through the "input" list, and -n
>         counts the number of arguments passed to each execution of
>         "command", *including* any "arg" list.
>
> So you actually want -n2.  (Adjust to taste.)
>
> --
> vq
>