Max length of value passed to shell()

2011-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
Whereas I'm lazy, I thought I'd ask rather than run a test. Is there some limit to the length of the string passed to shell() on any platform, especially OS X, whether by the engine or the shell-command program itself. Or even the typical limitations of utilities themselves. I'm not

Re: Max length of value passed to shell()

2011-08-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, August 29, 2011 06:35:36 PM Dar Scott wrote: Whereas I'm lazy, I thought I'd ask rather than run a test. Is there some limit to the length of the string passed to shell() on any platform, especially OS X, whether by the engine or the shell-command program itself. Or even the