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Re: Make/Bash Problem with B20
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Make/Bash Problem with B20
- From: Stefan Hornburg <sth at hacon dot de>
- Date: 18 Nov 1998 09:33:37 -0100
- References: <19981117132942.8040.qmail@findmail.com>
"Holger Szillat" <HSzillat@netscape.net> writes:
> Hey,
> I have the following problem using the Cygwin B20 under NT:
> When using very long "inline-shell-scripts" (i.e. shell commands within a Makefile with "\" spanning over several lines) the sub-shell sometimes gets only part of the line, so there is a limit of how many chars can be passed to a child-process.
> My question: *Where* is this limit ?? Make, bash, NT ??
> If not NT, can the limit be risen to a higher value ??
~ > echo `find Mail` | wc -c
36055
The limit for the command line is very high under bash as you see.
There seems to be a bug in bash when expanding file patterns
like 'foo*' that does not match to any existing file.
Ciao
Stefan
--
MKDIR pipe on netware with Windows* makes you wonder :-)
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