On 11/8/18 12:35 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Thanks. But I am not getting the same results (not the same number of
> echo's) as yours. I am using Mac OS X. Do you know why it is
> different?
>
> $ xargs --show-limits < /dev/null
> Your environment variables take up 7701 bytes
> POSIX upper limit on argum
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 4:50 AM Bernhard Voelker
wrote:
>
> On 11/8/18 6:50 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems that the default value for --max-args is system dependent. Is
> > there a way to find out its default value? Thanks.
>
> Actually the limit is not a matter of the number of argume
On 11/8/18 6:50 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that the default value for --max-args is system dependent. Is
> there a way to find out its default value? Thanks.
Actually the limit is not a matter of the number of arguments but that
of the resulting total command line length.
>From 'man x
