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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Is there a maximum length for a shell script command? Post 302682043 by Lem on Sunday 5th of August 2012 11:52:43 AM

08-05-2012

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Quote:

Originally Posted by hbar

I'm using Red Hat (Scientific Linux).

getconf ARG_MAX

gives

131072

Which should be enough, shouldn't it? Smilie

Quote:

What about breaking command line?

The sequence \<newline> is what you're looking for. To get <newline>, you obviously press ENTER.

Be careful: \<newline> works, "\<newline>" works, but '\<newline>' doesn't.

So:

Code:

lem@biggy:/tmp$ echo A\
> B\
> C
ABC
lem@biggy:/tmp$ echo "A\
> B\
> C"
ABC
lem@biggy:/tmp$ echo 'A\
> B\
> C'
A\
B\
C

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Bye

Lem

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