Chet Ramey wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
When under linux (2.6.30.x), I type
ulimit -p and get a return value of "8".
from the man page this is in 512-byte blocks and may not be set.
It's set at build time. Look at builtins/ulimit.def:pipesize() and
builtins/psize.sh (which uses builtins/psize.c
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:01:47PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> NL=$'\n'
> string="This is a$NLmulti-line$NLstring"
Of course you would need curly braces for that.
NL=$'\n'
string="This is a${NL}multi-line${NL}string"
Linda Walsh wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Linda Walsh wrote:
>>> When under linux (2.6.30.x), I type
>>> ulimit -p and get a return value of "8".
>>>
>>> from the man page this is in 512-byte blocks and may not be set.
>>
>> It's set at build time. Look at builtins/ulimit.def:pipesize() and
>> bui
also sprach Chet Ramey [2009.07.03.1952 +0200]:
> There is, in fact a de facto standard, but the bash4 behavior is
> what the Bourne and Korn shells have always done. In fact, the only
> way Martin's statement is true is if "all other shells" means "dash",
> since that's the only other shell I fo
