From 9db2b6a19b2a1e8a381a3b8c5b9bdab1868c0d02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:40:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug #193486 - Use xargs to avoid 'bash: /bin/rm: Argument
 list too long' errors. This patch uses a weird tr '\001' '\000' workaround
 since bash doesn't echo null bytes like one might expect.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=7848
---
 bin/ecompress | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/ecompress b/bin/ecompress
index bf886e1c4..676929d44 100755
--- a/bin/ecompress
+++ b/bin/ecompress
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ case $1 in
 		# delete it so that the compressor doesn't whine (bzip2 will
 		# complain and skip, gzip will prompt for input)
 		suffix=$(ecompress --suffix)
-		[[ -n ${suffix} ]] && rm -f "${@/%/${suffix}}"
+		[[ -n ${suffix} ]] && echo ${@/%/${suffix}$'\001'} | \
+			tr '\001' '\000' | ${XARGS} -0 rm -f
 		# Finally, let's actually do some real work
 		exec "${PORTAGE_COMPRESS}" ${PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS} "$@"
 		;;
-- 
2.26.2