Re: Maximum limit of pipes in a single command ?

[Keshetti Mahesh]

> For what is worth, on my system (bash 3.2.33(1)-release) I can have 3332
> pipes before bash gives an error. I used this command:
>

Thanks Dave for informing.

>
> Why do you want to know?
>

I have a bash script which replaces all tokens in a large with an
identifier (an integer) by doing 'sed'
in a loop. I modified the script a little bit to concatenate all
"s/<orig_token>/<new_token>" using pipes and
ran single 'sed' at the end. But its not working. Thats why I want to
know how many pipes can I open
through a single command. Also, I have tried concatenated the replace
commands using ";". Even
that is not working.

-Mahesh