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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] max size of bash variable value
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:18:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5587415.lY6vWiLjW7@pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111130121509.M92984@xvalheru.org>

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




  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-30 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-30 12:19 [gentoo-user] [OT] max size of bash variable value pat
2011-11-30 13:18 ` Michael Schreckenbauer [this message]
2011-11-30 13:54   ` pat

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