On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:51 PM, cuicui wrote: > Hello, > > I need to store some long strings in a bash variable, I'd like to know if > there's a limit in length (last version of bash/cygwin 1.5). > > At the moment the string is 3.185 chars long. It's a temporary situation > until I figure something better out.
There is no limit in bash or Cygwin, as far as I know (just successfully tested up to 13,598,720 bytes in 1.7). However, if you export the variable to the environment and expect it to be visible to a Windows program using GetEnvironmentVariable(), then there is (or at least used to be) a hard length limit of 32,766 characters (32,767 including the trailing NUL). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
