On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:49:03PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: > > I would like to write a bash script like the following one: > > > > for i in `some program that outputs a word list` > > do > > echo $i > > done > > > > where the word list can be very very long. I wonder what is the upper bound > > limit of the length of word lists in "for" loop of a bash script, or > > does it only > > depend on the hardware (say, RAM)? Thank you in advance. > > Assuming that the words are output one per line, something > like the following can handle lists of any size: > > some program | while read i; do echo $i; done
A wild thought, but if you want to count the words in the output can you not pipe it to wc? I haven't tried, this is just a thought... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
