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John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Oct 15 10:05:52 UTC 2007


Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 11:29 AM +1000 10/15/07, Cameron Simpson wrote:

>> that limit is not hit. Why not? Because the limit only applies to exec()
>> calls. It is an OS interface limit. For loops take place entirely in
>> user space. There is no "command line" being constructed in the sense
>> you're thinking.
>  ...
> 
> Whaddayaknow.
> 
>     $ ls /*/*/*/*/* | wc
>     bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
>           0       0       0
>     $ for n in /*/*/*/*/* ; do echo $n ; done | wc
>      211860  218203 7290275
>     $

Oh. I sit corrected.

Too shocked to stand.

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Cheers
John

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