Re: Crash on large brace expansion

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 05:28:04PM +0200, Léa Gris wrote:
> Le 15/07/2021 à 16:36, Gabríel Arthúr Pétursson écrivait :
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Executing the following results in a fierce crash:
> > 
> >     $ bash -c '{0..255}.{0..255}.{0..255}.{0..255}'
> 
> Brace expression expands all the value in memory.
> 
> Here you are actually telling Bash to expand 256⁴ or 4294967296 42 Billion
> entries.

4.2 billion, but who's counting? :-)