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Posted on March 27, 2016December 16, 2016

Argument list too long – Shell

Turns out there is a limit on the length of a bash command. To find out the maxlength on your system go to the console and:

$ getconf ARG_MAX
262144

The other day when I was trying to delete (rm -rf) a very large folder Continue reading “Argument list too long – Shell”

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