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. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please do not reply off-list
