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Re: [Help-bash] Is there a way to know how many arguments are not too lo
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Eduardo Bustamante |
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Re: [Help-bash] Is there a way to know how many arguments are not too long beforehand? |
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Fri, 20 Sep 2019 22:01:09 -0700 |
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:31 PM Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
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> For a case like this, the number of arguments should be between 10000
> and 100000. But this is dependent on many factors.
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> Is there a way to get a tight lower estimate of it in bash? xargs has
> something that may be useful for this purpose. But I'd like something
> native to bash.
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I'd start with:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120642/what-defines-the-maximum-size-for-a-command-single-argument