Split argument list to cat in handy 128 file chunks

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/makecolumns.sh b/makecolumns.sh
index 8b14dd7..55f23f4 100755
--- a/makecolumns.sh
+++ b/makecolumns.sh
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ handle_format_version_3() {
     printf "done.\n"
 
     printf "Splitting decompress vname chunks into their columns ... "
-    JOT "%0${filename_len}d" ${vname_file} $(( number_of_files - 1 )) 3 | xargs cat | tr '\n\0' '\t\n' | tr -d '\377' > 03_Vorname
+    JOT "%0${filename_len}d" ${vname_file} $(( number_of_files - 1 )) 3 | xargs -n 128 cat | tr '\n\0' '\t\n' | tr -d '\377' > 03_Vorname
     printf "done.\n"
 
     printf "Splitting decompress table file chunks into their columns ... "
@@ -300,11 +300,11 @@ handle_format_version_4() {
     printf "done.\n"
 
     printf "Splitting decompressed chunks into their columns (11 total) ... 1, "
-    JOT "file_%05X" 0 $(( rows - 1 )) 11 | xargs cat | xxd -ps -c1 > column_0
+    JOT "file_%05X" 0 $(( rows - 1 )) 11 | xargs -n 128 cat | xxd -ps -c1 > column_0
 
     for col in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
       printf "%d, " $(( col + 1 ))
-      JOT "file_%05X" ${col} $(( rows - 1 )) 11 | xargs cat | tr '\n\0' '\t\n' > column_${col}
+      JOT "file_%05X" ${col} $(( rows - 1 )) 11 | xargs -n 128 cat | tr '\n\0' '\t\n' > column_${col}
     done
     printf "done.\n"