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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers limit of command length Post 302187121 by era on Saturday 19th of April 2008 10:12:33 AM
Old 04-19-2008
Probably it does, but there are many implementations, so if it is undocumented, you will have to experiment, or look at the source.

rexec is insecure and should be replaced by ssh if at all possible anyway.

Any command handled by the exec() system call needs to be less than ARG_MAX, which is a constant defined in the kernel. POSIX requires ARG_MAX to be 4,096 bytes, but on modern systems, it's usually significantly larger.

Shameless self-promotion: How long can the command line be?
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SVNPATH(1)                                                                                                                              SVNPATH(1)

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svnpath - output svn url with support for tags and branches SYNOPSIS
svnpath svnpath tags svnpath branches svnpath trunk DESCRIPTION
svnpath is intended to be run in a Subversion working copy. In its simplest usage, svnpath with no parameters outputs the svn url for the repository associated with the working copy. If a parameter is given, svnpath attempts to instead output the url that would be used for the tags, branches, or trunk. This will only work if it's run in the top-level directory that is subject to tagging or branching. For example, if you want to tag what's checked into Subversion as version 1.0, you could use a command like this: svn cp $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/1.0 That's much easier than using svn info to look up the repository url and manually modifying it to derive the url to use for the tag, and typing in something like this: svn cp svn+ssh://my.server.example/svn/project/trunk svn+ssh://my.server.example/svn/project/tags/1.0 svnpath uses a simple heuristic to convert between the trunk, tags, and branches paths. It replaces the first occurrence of trunk, tags, or branches with the name of what you're looking for. This will work ok for most typical Subversion repository layouts. If you have an atypical layout and it does not work, you can add a ~/.svnpath file. This file is perl code, which can modify the path in $url. For example, the author uses this file: #!/usr/bin/perl # svnpath personal override file # For d-i I sometimes work from a full d-i tree branch. Remove that from # the path to get regular tags or branches directories. $url=~s!d-i/(rc|beta)[0-9]+/!!; $url=~s!d-i/sarge/!!; 1 LICENSE
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