[TriLUG] Limit to command line arguments?

[Cristobal Palmer]

Doh! beaten to the trigger.

On 10/21/05, Cristobal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> sounds like a job for grep and xargs
>
> see: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/09_21.html
>
> -CMP
>
> On 10/21/05, Randy Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> > It's a program that takes .STL CAD files as input as discritizes the
> > solids in 3D space.  It's the first step in some electromagnetic
> > simulations I am planning on running on some cell phone models, and it
> > is a custom program.  I was thinking of using a text file as the input
> > to my program instead of command line arguments if 350 parameters is too
> > many.  Thanks!
> >
> > Randy
> >
> > Warren Myers wrote:
> >
> > >350 arguments? ouch. What kind of program are you running? Maybe there's an
> > >alternative to the arguments?
> > >
> > >I'm not sure what the limit is under bash, but I know that under some older
> > >editions of Windows, you're limited to about 100 bytes. Not sure if it's
> > >different now.
> > >
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Cristobal M. Palmer
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