[Nix-dev] Patch: Add a "--from-file" option to all nix commands

[shea at shealevy.com]

Having problems with the additions to the manual, so this patch only has
the code changes.

> This version is tested and works as expected.
>
> On 08/08/2011 03:16 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
>> This version of the patch uses tokenizeString to parse, and only
>> tokenizes on newlines. This is STILL NOT TESTED, will report back once
>> I've tested it.
>>
>> ~Shea
>>
>> On 08/08/2011 02:52 PM, shea at shealevy.com wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> This patch adds and documents the "--from-file" option which allows
>>>> parsing a file (or stdin) for additional arguments to the command.
>>>> Note
>>>> that this patch is NOT YET TESTED, I'm sending it here while I work on
>>>> figuring out how to build nix from SVN in the hopes that someone might
>>>> already be equipped to do so and might test it in the mean time.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Shea Levy
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>>> Forgot to mention why we care about this: This will allow us to avoid
>>> the
>>> "argument list too long" problem with the default remote builder hook
>>> by
>>> allowing us to send arguments via stdin.
>>>
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