Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:46:34 +0200 From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevr-current@9online.fr> To: "Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen@gmail.com>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Could ARG_MAX be increased? Message-ID: <000001c4a174$0545df40$7890a8c0@gits.invalid> References: <b34be84204092304456066b0a0@mail.gmail.com>
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"Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> 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. how about grep -r ou find | xargs grep ! Cyrille Lefevre. -- home: mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net
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