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Hi,

Can anybody tell me the answer of that question:

Maximum how many arguments we can pass a shell script??



Thanks,
DKS
Oct 9 '09 #1
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I dunno about other OSes but on solaris
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  1. getconf ARG_MAX
will answer that for you

although I believe that as environmentals are passed using the same memoryspace as args, you would need to do X - Y where X is the output of the above command and Y is the number of environmental variables on the set in the current shell.
Oct 12 '09 #2

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