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
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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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