On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, era eriksson wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:11:54 -0700 (MST), Wotan <wotan(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com>
wrote:
> What I am trying to do is put some information into variables like so:
> VAR1=|sed command
Judging from the Subject line, I'm guessing you are concerned that the
output from sed might grow too big to fit in a variable.
Exactly :) Although I do plan to use cat and grep as well.
The way I
read the documentation for Procmail, there should in principle be no
hard limit other than the amount of virtual memory :-) but in
practice, of course, you're doomed as soon as the size exceeds LINEBUF
but that will hit you slightly later, when you want to say $VAR1.
This is what brought the question to mind. Some of my test messages
generated output well above default LINEBUFF (what I use) with no problem.
(8-9K characters stored).
If that's not what you mean, Stevens contains a table with common
limits for several types of Unices. I can dig up the page number for
you if you like, but I have the book at home.
Cool. That might proveuseful as well. :)
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