John Vincent wrote:
> I find that if I enter the command:
> echo {1..20000000}
> it runs, but afterwards whenever I enter another command I get the error:
> -bash: fork: Cannot allocate memoryYou need to allocate more virtual memory space to your machine. You are asking it to do more than it can do with the memory it has available. > I guess that the memory allocated to all those numbers on the echo > command line is not freed properly. This has been discussed previously. Please see this message thread for the previous discussion. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-11/msg00181.html Bob
