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From: j@werner.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xargs and ARG_MAX
Date: 15 Sep 1995 11:58:56 +0200
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Keywords: xargs argument ARG_MAX
G. Ioannou <gi101@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>Something similar to this is also stated in the manpage. My
>question is this: what is ARG_MAX, and therefore, what is the
>maximum command line length in FreeBSD?
Ask you sysctl command: sysctl -a.
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)