[TriLUG] How many character are allowed on the command line?

[Russell Harrison]

I know I've done bash one liners that wrapped at least a full screen of
text.  There had to be a good 1000 chars in that one "line".

On 5/29/06, Ralph Blach <rcblach at blach.dnsalias.org> wrote:
>
> I am taking a class in computer science and the professor seems to
> indicate the the maximum number of character one can enter from the
> command line is 256 in both Windows command prompt  and the "IX's"
> command prompt.
>
> From long ago, I seem to remember that this was  256 characters was a
> limitation of the DOS command prompt in Windows at one time,
> but never in  the "IX's" such as AIX, Linux, Solaris, .... .
>
> Could the knowledgeable Trilug community comment on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chip
>
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