Search using rg and fzf leads to xargs: command too long in fish-shell on Pinebook Pro

[BuZZ-dEE]

Thank you for implementing #6 it works great on my x86 64 bit Arch Linux system, but not on my Debian 9 ARM Pinebook Pro system.

rg slider --vimgrep --color ansi | fzf --ansi --print0 | cut - d : -f 1-3 | xargs -r -I {} code -g {}

[rlivings39]

What goes wrong in this case? Do you get errors? If you replace the code -g with echo does anything useful print out to help us debug?

Another thing to try is to remove the --print0 and see if that helps.

[BuZZ-dEE]

I get only the error message: xargs: command too long

rg slider --vimgrep --color ansi | fzf --ansi | cut -d : -f 1-3 | xargs -r -I {} code -g {}                        
xargs: command too long

rg slider --vimgrep --color ansi | fzf --ansi --print0 | cut -d : -f 1-3 | xargs -r -I {} echo {}                  23:33:41
projects/apps/editor/src/app/ui/configurator/configurator.component.ts:72:15

[rlivings39]

Interesting. I'm kind of stumped. Will need to request your help since I can't reproduce.

Some ideas to try:

What does manually running code -g projects/apps/editor/src/app/ui/configurator/configurator.component.ts:72:15 do for you? Same error?

If that works fine, then does the -t argument to xargs print out anything useful (that shows the command being run)? xargs -t -r...

I wonder if somehow the pinebook pro has a smaller command line limit. Could be reason to move some of this code to typescript on my end.

[BuZZ-dEE]

What does manually running code -g projects/apps/editor/src/app/ui/configurator/configurator.component.ts:72:15 do for you? Same error?

It opens the file in VSCode.

rg slider --vimgrep --color ansi | fzf --ansi --print0 | cut -d : -f 1-3 | xargs -t -r -I {} code -g {}
xargs: command too long

Ah, I have to mention, that I use the fish-shell on both systems (Debian 9 ARM and Arch Linux x86_64). I also tried now the bash and the z-shell and in that shells it does open the file as intended.

getconf ARG_MAX                                                                                       
2097152

[rlivings39]

I came across:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4075158

which suggests that my use of {} may be buggering up fish. I also use fish 3.1.2 but maybe there's a version difference.

How does:

rg slider --vimgrep --color ansi | fzf --ansi --print0 | cut -z -d : -f 1-3 | xargs -0 code -g

work for you?

[BuZZ-dEE]

I have fish version 2.4.0. That does work 👍