From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 28 10:43: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC3415294 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:43:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id NAA13328; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:51:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902281851.NAA13328@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: problem with cat command In-Reply-To: <009201be6347$fc1adf80$3b58b5d1@psytrance.com> from "sogon@psytrance.com" at "Feb 28, 99 10:27:23 am" To: sogon@psytrance.com Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:51:58 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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