You can put arguments in a file and then open and parse the file inside perl.
-Alex C. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Grazzini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:29 PM To: Kevin Old Cc: Dan Muey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: grep argument list too long...how to get around it? On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:37:02PM -0400, Kevin Old wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 11:46, Steve Grazzini wrote: > > No. (It's ARG_MAX...) > > I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and my ARG_MAX is not set, so is it > "unlimited"? If not, what is the default? It's not an environment variable. (Check limits.h.) And remember, that's not the *number* of files/arguments/whatever. ARG_MAX is the total *memory* that can be used for a new process's environment and argument list. % export FOO=$( perl -le 'print "x" x 2**17' ) % ls bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long -- Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
