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Old 09-18-2009
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Hi All experts, I was asked some questions of late & i was not aware of these. 1Q. how much we can pipe in shell prompt ?2Q. how many arguments we can pass in shell script & how to print that ? (eg, if i want to know what I passed in 11th Argument) ( for 3rd argument we can do echo $3, but I think for 11th Arg it can't done same way)3Q. I want to create a directory dir1 and then dir2 in side dir1 and then dirr3 inside dir2, ie, dir1/dir2/dir3 by a single command. How ?Thanking you in anticipation,
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Old 09-18-2009
what do you mean by how much ??? in question 1..
echo $11 will print 11th argument like echo $3
mkdir -p dir1/dir2/dir3
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Old 09-18-2009
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Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
what do you mean by how much ??? in question 1..
echo $11 will print 11th argument like echo $3
mkdir -p dir1/dir2/dir3
by 'how much' I meant how many times. eg, echo "hello unix.com" | cut -f1 -d"." | grep 'unix' , here I used pipe twice. like wise can I pipe 50 or 60 or may be 100 times,eg, some command | some command | ........ 'n' times ........ | some command
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Old 09-18-2009
There's no arbitrary limit beyond whatever limit your system has for how many processes one user is allowed to create, how much memory one user is allowed to use, and how many pipes the kernel can keep around at once. You'd probably be allowed a few dozen at minimum before the system started refusing you, depending on what the processes actually are and what limits your sysop has set.

But that doesn't make it a good idea. Joining dozens of processes in a pipe-chain would be very inefficient since each one would need to take turns running and reading and writing. What is the goal here? There's probably a better way to do it.
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Old 09-18-2009
If there is a limit, it's a quite large one. Example taken from Randall Munroe:
Code:
cat /usr/share/dict/words | fgrep -v "'" | \
perl -ne 'chomp($_); @b=split(//,$_); print join("", sort(@b))." ".$_."\n";' | \
tee lookup.txt | perl -pe 's/^([^ ]+) .*/\1/g' | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | \
sort -n | awk '{$1=""; print $0}' | uniq -c | sort -nr | egrep "^[^0-9]+2 " | \
awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n | awk '{$1=""; print $0}' | \
perl -pe 's/[ 0-9]//g' | xargs -i grep {} lookup.txt | perl -pe 's/[^ ]+ //g' |\
tail -n2

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Old 09-18-2009
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There's no arbitrary limit beyond whatever limit your system has for how many processes one user is allowed to create, how much memory one user is allowed to use, and how many pipes the kernel can keep around at once. You'd probably be allowed a few dozen at minimum before the system started refusing you, depending on what the processes actually are and what limits your sysop has set.

But that doesn't make it a good idea. Joining dozens of processes in a pipe-chain would be very inefficient since each one would need to take turns running and reading and writing. What is the goal here? There's probably a better way to do it.
Today in a interview a senior person asked me this and I was not sure about the answenrs. I should have posted these questions yesterday Smilie
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Old 09-19-2009
Remember to use the syntax ${1} and ${11} rather than $1 and $11 when composing strings.
 
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