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Re: Limits of grep?




On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> By the way, it brings up another point I forgot to mention: the limit on
> the command line includes the size of the environment (i.e., a string
> containing all the exported shell variables), because this environment string
> is also passed to the called program using execve (aain, see 'man execve'
> for more information).

be carefull not to trust manual pages too much - they are too often not
updated. only checking the soruce program of the specific version of
program you're currently using is usefull for drawing out definitive
conclusions (by 'source' i refer to the c files, not the header files - as
you saw, the posix limits header file is completely out of date).

guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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