On 11/01/07 15:07, Wei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to write a bash script like the following one: > > for i in `some program that outputs a word list` > do > echo $i > done > > where the word list can be very very long. I wonder what is the upper bound > limit of the length of word lists in "for" loop of a bash script, or > does it only > depend on the hardware (say, RAM)? Thank you in advance.
I *think* that bash has a 128KB buffer limit. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]