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 1RVk4t-0003KX-MZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:19:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94E4321C23A; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F8D821C0F0 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Nov 2011 13:18:36 -0000 Received: from p5B08353F.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO pc.localnet) [91.8.53.63] by mail.gmx.net (mp058) with SMTP; 30 Nov 2011 14:18:36 +0100 X-Authenticated: #13997268 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18a5Mpv+2cavCNhCihpn+E+zFjlmIuXcMg4vEPxk/ WXFkz3/K9e1S/k From: Michael Schreckenbauer 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 Message-ID: <5587415.lY6vWiLjW7@pc> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.3 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20111130121509.M92984@xvalheru.org> References: <20111130121509.M92984@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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 599ffe53-095e-4c41-9a68-c323f5abdca5 X-Archives-Hash: 477691d8ea78b35e203cc71bb066e3e3 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