Maximum characters in one line limitation 2

[herzel]

Hi
I tried to enter in Solaris 8 in one line the following echo"1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111...etc. and have limitation of 254 characters maximum.
Seems like OS limitation (because I did not successes at all the servers in our LAN)
Can this limitation be override?
And how?


Thanks in advance for any help

 

[spamly]

I think it is a limit of the particular shell that you're using. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Annihilannic]

I agree, I see similar behaviour in Korn shell on HP-UX. Note however that if you put the commands in a script they can be much longer.

Annihilannic.

 

[elgrandeperro]

I don't think it can be overridden easily. The last time I looked at this problem, the shells could be rebuilt for a larger command buffer, but then the IO libraries also had to be rebuilt because they also have a defined buffer max. I don't believe it is easily configurable.

eugene

 

[Annihilannic]

You could switch to bash, just tried that on HP-UX and I was able to edit a command line 441,600 characters long! (I gave up testing at that point!!)

Annihilannic.

 

[KenCunningham]

A star for research above and beyond the call of duty, Anni!

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[mikejordan]

Hi,
have you tried this -
LINE="11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 etc"
echo $LINE$LINE$LINE etc

It works for me.

Hope it helps, Mike