long command lines

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 10:52 AM 1/29/2001, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > Mike Schuster wrote:
> > >
> > > Problem: I couldn't figure out how to get very long command line
> > > arguments to work (~32k) (for example 'ls */*/*/*', if you have a lot of
> > > files on the disk).
>...
> > 
> > Well, most systems have a command line limit.  Check out `man xargs'.
> > However, xargs may have limits also.
>
>I thought GNU software tried to avoid arbitrary limit like that.  Shouldn't
>the only limit be virtual memory?  
>
>That is, shouldn't bash keep reallocating (enlarging) its buffer until the
>pattern has been expanding, or until it runs out of memory?


I'm sure you can find your answer in the source if you're interested.



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