> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:34:00 -0700
> Dima Kogan <zsh@dima.secretsauce.net> wrote:
>
> I can't seem to get the -n option in zargs to work right. This looks like a bug
> to me, but maybe I'm not using it correctly:
> 
> dima@shorty:/tmp$ ls -l
> total 12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dima dima 1 Oct 27 15:29 1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dima dima 5 Oct 27 15:29 2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dima dima 5 Oct 27 15:29 3
> 
> 
> dima@shorty:/tmp$ zargs -- * -- ls -l 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dima dima 1 Oct 27 15:29 1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dima dima 5 Oct 27 15:29 2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dima dima 5 Oct 27 15:29 3
> 
> dima@shorty:/tmp$ zargs -- * -- ls   
> 1  2  3
> 
> dima@shorty:/tmp$ zargs -n1 -- * -- ls 
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 
> dima@shorty:/tmp$ zargs -n1 -- * -- ls -l
> zargs: argument list too long


Attached is a patch that fixes this. There was some misbehaving logic in the
script. I don't understand why that logic was ever necessary. Does anybody know
why the value of $n was connected to the value of $c at all?