07-23-2004
I know that some commands on some flavours of Unix running on certain architectures may have restrictions (1024 or 2048 chars), but these are imposed by certain commands such as grep and others under those OSes. Most modern *nix shells are fairly flexible, and you can write to arrays, use xargs, and perform other chicanery to get around any limits you encounter. The Korn shell has a limit of 1024 array elements. I'm not aware of any other limits.
Why would you want to store a huge amount of data in a shell variable anyway??
Cheers
ZB
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vdltodmx(1) General Commands Manual vdltodmx(1)
NAME
vdltodmx - dmx configuration file parser and printer
SYNOPSIS
vdltodmx infile outfile
DESCRIPTION
vdltodmx reads the input file, which should be in VDL configuration file format. After a successful parse, a file in Xdmx configuration
file format is written to the output file.
The VDL file format is used with xmovie, which is available from http://www.llnl.gov/icc/lc/img/xmovie/xmovie.html
EXAMPLE
Given the following VDL-format file:
0
2
#
#
2560 2048 Left two-thirds [restrict=*:2]
2
:2.1 1280 2048 0 0 0 0
:2.2 1280 2048 1280 0 0 0
4
1280 1024 0 0
1280 1024 0 1024
1280 1024 1280 0
1280 1024 1280 1024
#
2560 2048 Right two-thirds [restrict=*:2]
2
:2.2 1280 2048 0 0 0 0
:2.3 1280 2048 1280 0 0 0
4
1280 1024 1280 0
1280 1024 1280 1024
1280 1024 2560 0
1280 1024 2560 1024
the following DMX-format file will be produced:
#
#
virtual "Left two-thirds" 2560x2048 {
display :2.1 1280x2048;
display :2.2 1280x2048 @1280x0;
}
#
virtual "Right two-thirds" 2560x2048 {
display :2.2 1280x2048;
display :2.3 1280x2048 @1280x0;
}
BUGS
If the VDL file is not in the expected format, the program will probably dump core.
SEE ALSO
Xdmx(1), xdmxconfig(1), vdl(3), xmovie(1)
X Version 11 xorg-server 1.12.4 vdltodmx(1)