fedora 11 bash maximum line length?

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• From: Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:50:53 -0600
• Organization: Melville Theatre
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What is the maximum length of a command line in bash on Fedora 11?

[frankcox@mutt ~]$ getconf ARG_MAX
2621440

Does this mean that I can enter over 2 million characters on a single bash
command line?

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