From: sth@hacon.de (Stefan Hornburg) Subject: Re: Make/Bash Problem with B20 18 Nov 1998 10:30:00 -0800 Message-ID: References: <19981117132942.8040.qmail@findmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.4.5 - "Tomari") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com "Holger Szillat" writes: > Hey, > I have the following problem using the Cygwin B20 under NT: > When using very long "inline-shell-scripts" (i.e. shell commands within a Makefile with "\" spanning over several lines) the sub-shell sometimes gets only part of the line, so there is a limit of how many chars can be passed to a child-process. > My question: *Where* is this limit ?? Make, bash, NT ?? > If not NT, can the limit be risen to a higher value ?? ~ > echo `find Mail` | wc -c 36055 The limit for the command line is very high under bash as you see. There seems to be a bug in bash when expanding file patterns like 'foo*' that does not match to any existing file. Ciao Stefan -- MKDIR pipe on netware with Windows* makes you wonder :-) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".