[TriLUG] How many character are allowed on the command line?

[Shane O'Donnell]

I'm curious as to what sort of task merits a bash "one-liner" versus jumping
out and writing a legit "script".

For my money, just for simple editing reasons, two lines would be my
breaking point before my one-liner made the jump to "script worthy".

Curious,

Shane O.

On 5/29/06, Russell Harrison <rtlm10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know I've done bash one liners that wrapped at least a full screen of
> text.  There had to be a good 1000 chars in that one "line".
>
> On 5/29/06, Ralph Blach <rcblach at blach.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> >
> > I am taking a class in computer science and the professor seems to
> > indicate the the maximum number of character one can enter from the
> > command line is 256 in both Windows command prompt  and the "IX's"
> > command prompt.
> >
> > From long ago, I seem to remember that this was  256 characters was a
> > limitation of the DOS command prompt in Windows at one time,
> > but never in  the "IX's" such as AIX, Linux, Solaris, .... .
> >
> > Could the knowledgeable Trilug community comment on this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chip
> >
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