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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Is there a limit to the no. of arguments to a shell script ? Post 302176026 by agn on Monday 17th of March 2008 07:24:04 AM
Old 03-17-2008
Yes there's a limit to the max no. of arguments you can pass to a command.
Its system dependent I think. Try this:

Code:
$ getconf ARG_MAX

 

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GETCONF(1)							 Debian GNU/Linux							GETCONF(1)

NAME
getconf - Query system configuration variables SYNOPSIS
getconf -a getconf [-v specification] system_var getconf [-v specification] path_var pathname DESCRIPTION
-a Displays all configuration variables for the current system and their values. -v Indicate the specification and version for which to obtain configuration variables. system_var A system configuration variable, as defined by sysconf(3) or confstr(3). path_var A system configuration variable as defined by pathconf(3). This must be used with a pathname. AUTHOR
getconf was written by Roland McGrath for the GNU C Library This man page was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. SEE ALSO
sysconf(3), pathconf(3), confstr(3) 3rd Berkeley Distribution squeeze GETCONF(1)
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