Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:46:10 +0200 From: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> To: Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased? Message-ID: <20040923214610.663c6ac0.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <b34be84204092304456066b0a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <b34be84204092304456066b0a0@mail.gmail.com>
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Juha Saarinen wrote: > Currently, ARG_MAX is set to: > > $ getconf ARG_MAX > 65536 > > in syslimits.h. This is quite low compared to other OS (SunOS has 1MB > IIRC, and OpenBSD 3.5 256K) and causes the "argument list too long" > issues when for instance grep'ing in directories with lots of files. And AIX has 24k ;) You may use a combination of ls|find+xargs for grepping many files... -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
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