[TriLUG] Limit to command line arguments?

[Ian Kilgore]

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Warren Myers wrote:
| Can you do something along the lines of <progname> *.CAD?
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| WMM
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Yup, but <progname> has to interpret the glob character, not the shell.
~ If you pass '*.CAD' to a program in bash, bash expands the '*.CAD' to
'1.CAD 2.CAD 3.CAD ... N.CAD'.  If the resulting string is bigger than
the number of arguments a program can take, you're still toast.
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