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Re: /bin/cat: Argument list too long
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: /bin/cat: Argument list too long |
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Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:27:28 -0400 |
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Jeff Chua <jeff93@silk.corp.fedex.com> wrote:
> /bin/cat: Argument list too long
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument%20list%20too%20long
> The "cat" command is simply ...
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> cat <<EOF
> some text less than 2kBytes
The size of the input doesn't matter, only the size of the command
line and environment. It's odd that the script can start, but cat
can't. The shell may be automatically setting some environment
variables, which would explain it.
paul