> For what is worth, on my system (bash 3.2.33(1)-release) I can have 3332 > pipes before bash gives an error. I used this command: >
Thanks Dave for informing. > > Why do you want to know? > I have a bash script which replaces all tokens in a large with an identifier (an integer) by doing 'sed' in a loop. I modified the script a little bit to concatenate all "s/<orig_token>/<new_token>" using pipes and ran single 'sed' at the end. But its not working. Thats why I want to know how many pipes can I open through a single command. Also, I have tried concatenated the replace commands using ";". Even that is not working. -Mahesh
