Folks:
Is there a limit to the number of arguments that can be passed to
fileutils programs such as mv or rm ? If yes, is it filesystem
dependant/kernel config dependant/fileutils version dependant? Can this
maximum limit be tuned/controlled ? I googled on it a bit, but couldn't
find anything much more relevant than a message in the OS-X forum.
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-admin/2002-December/027907.html
Someone asked me this question in a linux-related forum and I
decided to experiment on my box ( RedHat 8.0 running vanilla kernel
2.4.20; fileutils version 4.1.9 ) to find out what the current limit
was. I found that 12806 filenames can be passed to rm at a time without
generating the error shown in the subject line. (Took me about a dozen
tries to reach this figure.)
Your comments would be extremely valuable.
Nandu.
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