On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:26:54 -0700 Doug Barton wrote: > Mikolaj Golub wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 8.0-RC1 if you run this command: >> >> cat > /dev/null >> >> and try to input a long line, the maximum length you can input is 1920 >> characters. >> >> I have investigated a bit how I can increase a tty buffer as this is a >> problem >> for me (I have logs with very long lines and I used to copy&past a particular >> line into input of some script to structure it). > > I have no useful input on the buffer size issue, but if you wanted to > post a bit of your script we may be able to help you find a different > solution that doesn't involve cat. :)
Thanks, but cat was taken as a simple example just to illustrate the problem. The real scripts are usually on perl with 'while(<>)' loop or 'perl -ne' one liners. And sure I could find ways to workaround the problem and actually this is what I did until ed@ provided the solution. -- Mikolaj Golub _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
