Re: /bin/cat: Argument list too long

[Jeff Chua]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Paul Jarc wrote:

> Jeff Chua <address@hidden> wrote:
> >         /bin/cat: Argument list too long
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument%20list%20too%20long

This is a good explanation. Thanks.


> The size of the input doesn't matter, only the size of the command
> line and environment.  It's odd that the script can start, but cat
> can't.  The shell may be automatically setting some environment
> variables, which would explain it.

Yes, it's the script that set more environment variables, so by the time 
it gets to "cat", it has already ran out of memory for the user space.

Thanks,
Jeff.