I'm curious as to what sort of task merits a bash "one-liner" versus jumping out and writing a legit "script".
For my money, just for simple editing reasons, two lines would be my breaking point before my one-liner made the jump to "script worthy". Curious, Shane O. On 5/29/06, Russell Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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