I've struck a problem with a script that has a line like this:
filelist=`cat -`
In the ksh and posix sh this spits the dummy when the file list
reaches about 352 Kbytes with the message "no space".
The bourne sh doesn't seem to have any limit on what a variable
can hold.
Does anyone know where and how this limit is defined.
Can it be changed?
Ian
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Received on Tue Jul 06 1999 - 05:12:02 NZST