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From: brad@lsr-vax.UUCP (Brad Zoltick - LMO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: argument number limit
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Date: 18 Dec 90 22:23:03 GMT
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We are running up against the number-of-arguments limit allowed on
the command line under the C shell.  Is there a way to increase
this limit to a much larger value. Shell files that run properly under
SUNOS4 are failing under IRIX-3.31 with the error

		"argument number too large".

Our researchers routinely analyze directories containing many
hundreds of data files using shell scripts to process the data.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Brad Zoltick
National Institutes of Health

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