Re: big 'list' consumes all memory

[pk]

On Thursday 16 April 2009 11:11, Mart Frauenlob wrote:

> for i in $(seq 0 15755500); do echo $i; done
> -bash: xrealloc: ../bash/subst.c:512: cannot reallocate 182209024 bytes
> (0 bytes allocated)
> 
> 
> ok, thesis looks confirmed...
> I'm no C programmer, but I try to think logically about it.
> There may be no way around it, as it may be necessary to build the
> complete list, before it's possible to work with it.

If you do it that way maybe yes (or maybe not - I can't really speak), but
of course you can always do

seq 1 15755500 | while read i; etc.