From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RVkdZ-0002XU-P2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:55:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7847F21C097; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pipni.cz (mail.pipni.cz [93.185.104.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACC021C029 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pipni.cz ([93.185.104.5] helo=xvalheru.org) id 1RVkcA-0001iA-FL for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:54:22 +0100 From: "pat" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] max size of bash variable value Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:54:22 +0100 Message-Id: <20111130135349.M72187@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <5587415.lY6vWiLjW7@pc> References: <20111130121509.M92984@xvalheru.org> <5587415.lY6vWiLjW7@pc> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.53 20091220 464 X-OriginatingIP: 193.179.215.76 (pat@xvalheru.org) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-MailScanner-ID: 1RVkcA-0001iA-FL X-pipni-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-pipni-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.5, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_40 -0.00, KHOP_THREADED -1.50, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-pipni-MailScanner-From: pat@xvalheru.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 9ef84690-0cdc-4589-a828-53a564173e48 X-Archives-Hash: 63e7ef6218a5efd63f84e3f2c6979e13 On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:18:35 +0100, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote > Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2011, 13:19:56 schrieb pat: > > Hi all, > > > > Sorry for this off topic post, but I've been asked how/where to find maximum > > size of bash variable value. I've search and found 4M, 1k, 4k ... . But > > didn't found how/where this limit is set. I know, that for C it's e.g. > > sizeof(int), but for bash? > > afaik you can query that value with > getconf ARG_MAX > How to set it, I have no idea. > > > Thanks for help > > Pat > > Best, > Michael Thanks a lot that's exactly they looking for ... I hope :-) Thanks Pat ---------------------------------------- Freehosting PIPNI - http://www.pipni.cz/