Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:51:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: sogon@psytrance.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with cat command Message-ID: <199902281851.NAA13328@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <009201be6347$fc1adf80$3b58b5d1@psytrance.com> from "sogon@psytrance.com" at "Feb 28, 99 10:27:23 am"
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sogon@psytrance.com wrote, > does anyone know what the limit of args to the cat command is, The command itself appears to have no limit (from a quick peak at '/usr/src/bin/cat/cat.c'). The limit you'll probably hit is the number of arguments the shell is willing to take. > basically what i want to do is cat 15000 files into another file how would i > do this Break it up into chunks. How to do this depends on your shell of choice and the way the files are named. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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