In situations when there are many thousands of candidates for deletion, paccache returns an "Argument list too long" error at the freed space calculation stage, because the expansion of the ${candidates[@]} array becomes too long for Bash. This commit fixes that problem, by getting the @SIZECMD@ arguments via `printf '%s\0' "${candidates[@]}" | xargs -0`, similarly to what is done for the (re)moving commands below. Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lb.workbox@gmail.com> --- src/paccache.sh.in | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/paccache.sh.in b/src/paccache.sh.in index af901f4..1311fd7 100644 --- a/src/paccache.sh.in +++ b/src/paccache.sh.in @@ -391,7 +391,8 @@ candidates=("${candtemp[@]}") unset candtemp # do this before we destroy anything -totalsaved=$(@SIZECMD@ "${candidates[@]}" | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }') +totalsaved=$(printf '%s\0' "${candidates[@]}" | xargs -0 @SIZECMD@ | + awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }') # Exit immediately if a pipeline returns non-zero. set -o errexit -- 2.26.2