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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 1:34:15 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
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-The maximum length in bytes for the arguments to a new process.
+The maximum length in bytes for the arguments to a new process defined in __/usr/include/linux/limits.h__:
+
+ #define ARG_MAX 131072 /* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */
+
+If you run into the limit, consider using xargs(1)
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