Maximum # of program arguments
luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
Thu Jul 18 03:38:00 GMT 2002
On 18 Jul, Mike Kasprzak wrote:
> find blah blah blah). I do have quite possibly over 16k characters I'm
> passing as arguments to a program. Whats the maximum, and how can I
> increase it?? :).
I wouldn't have thought that would work even under Unix.
Nor did I think you could increase it.
16k! Normally one uses a config file well before getting to that
point. Or provide an option to read input from stdin or something -
like xargs and cpio do ...
Sorry, I know that answer doesn't help.
luke
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