[TriLUG] Limit to command line arguments?

[Cristobal Palmer]

sounds like a job for grep and xargs

see: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/09_21.html

-CMP

On 10/21/05, Randy Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> It's a program that takes .STL CAD files as input as discritizes the
> solids in 3D space.  It's the first step in some electromagnetic
> simulations I am planning on running on some cell phone models, and it
> is a custom program.  I was thinking of using a text file as the input
> to my program instead of command line arguments if 350 parameters is too
> many.  Thanks!
>
> Randy
>
> Warren Myers wrote:
>
> >350 arguments? ouch. What kind of program are you running? Maybe there's an
> >alternative to the arguments?
> >
> >I'm not sure what the limit is under bash, but I know that under some older
> >editions of Windows, you're limited to about 100 bytes. Not sure if it's
> >different now.
> >
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