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Re: long command lines
- To: Daniel Barclay <Daniel dot Barclay at digitalfocus dot com>,cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: long command lines
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:00:47 -0500
- References: <3A70B734.A18289E@nuance.com><3A70C7CB.AB0DA2BE@yahoo.com>
At 10:52 AM 1/29/2001, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> > Mike Schuster wrote:
> > >
> > > Problem: I couldn't figure out how to get very long command line
> > > arguments to work (~32k) (for example 'ls */*/*/*', if you have a lot of
> > > files on the disk).
>...
> >
> > Well, most systems have a command line limit. Check out `man xargs'.
> > However, xargs may have limits also.
>
>I thought GNU software tried to avoid arbitrary limit like that. Shouldn't
>the only limit be virtual memory?
>
>That is, shouldn't bash keep reallocating (enlarging) its buffer until the
>pattern has been expanding, or until it runs out of memory?
I'm sure you can find your answer in the source if you're interested.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
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