Able to set batch size?

[jlay79]

What version of fd are you using?
fd 8.2.1

When using command execution it appears as though there are only two options; -x / --exec to run an external command for each of the results, and -X / --exec-batch to run the command once with all search results as arguments.

Is there a native way to specify a "batch size" to be able to specify the number of results/arguments per command? As an example, I need to run touch on 1M files and it would be great if there was something like a --batch-size argument where I could specify how many results/arguments for each touch command to avoid "argument list too long" errors.

This can, of course, be done by piping into xargs -n, but would be nice if it were native/built-in to fd.

If not already built-in, adding a "batch size" along with the existing -j / --threads option would be very powerful.

Thanks!

Edit: AWESOME tool, btw!!!

[sharkdp]

Please see #410

[jlay79]

I missed that, thanks for the note. As far as I can tell, it looks like that feature request is for an "auto batch" size based on the platform max arg length, which would be great. The ability to have the user set the batch size manually could also be useful.
Thanks!

[sharkdp]

closing in favor of #410. see my new comment therein. Thank you for the feedback!