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[John Summerfield]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>
>> Ok. I now believe it but I don't understand why. The ls command gets 
>> globbed and grows to be too big.  But the for commandline has to also 
>> grow to the same size. Is it because the forloop is special?

The FSF has some GNU software that handles arbitrarily-long strings 
safely. No doubt bash is one of the packages that uses these functions.






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