Could ARG_MAX be increased?

[Cyrille Lefevre]

"Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, ARG_MAX is set to:
> 
> $ getconf ARG_MAX
> 65536
>  
> in syslimits.h. This is quite low compared to other OS (SunOS has 1MB
> IIRC, and OpenBSD 3.5 256K) and causes the "argument list too long"
> issues when for instance grep'ing in directories with lots of files.


how about grep -r ou find | xargs grep !

Cyrille Lefevre.
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