[lug] Limits of grep?

Calvin Dodge caldodge at fpcc.net
Tue Sep 26 07:58:20 MDT 2000


Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> This is a limitation of the shell most likely (on the order of 256
> characters, I think).

Errr ... no.  Mind you, certain lame OSes have that limit, but the shell (bash,
anyway) has a much larger limit (how much? I'm not sure)

Calvin




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