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John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Oct 18 00:02:17 UTC 2007
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>
>> Ok. I now believe it but I don't understand why. The ls command gets
>> globbed and grows to be too big. But the for commandline has to also
>> grow to the same size. Is it because the forloop is special?
The FSF has some GNU software that handles arbitrarily-long strings
safely. No doubt bash is one of the packages that uses these functions.
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