Gordon Messmer wrote:
Steven W. Orr wrote:
Ok. I now believe it but I don't understand why. The ls command gets
globbed and grows to be too big. But the for commandline has to also
grow to the same size. Is it because the forloop is special?
The FSF has some GNU software that handles arbitrarily-long strings
safely. No doubt bash is one of the packages that uses these functions.
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