max shell script size

[spigven]

Hello

I have a fairly weighty shell script which calls other shell scripts. After amendment which increased its size it now fails near the end. After exhaustive investigation all I can come up with is that I may have exceeded a size limitation. Anyone know how the limit is determined on AIX 6.1 ?

Thanks

Mark

 

[p5wizard]

I never heard of that... What error message do you get?

Have you checked for a missing quote or bracket or parenthesis or ...

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[spigven]

Hello

Yes I'm sure its related to size, I've experienced something similar in 4.3 but it was a much larger script. Then I simply split the script into three parts as a work around which is not feasible in this instance.

Thanks

Mark

 

[p5wizard]

Perhaps it is related to some ulimit setting? See if you can circumvent the problem by adjusting rss or stack or data limit.

man ulimit

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[spigven]

Thanks for the replies but I've answered my own question.

First I remembered the symptoms of a script that was too large and these were not it.

Re examining the code for the umpteenth time I found a bug in the script that ran as the step prior to the failing step.

Mark