From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kim Ollivier To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: How to echo a string of more than 1024 chars in a bash script? Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 19:48:00 -0000 Message-id: <35A559FA.F543C1D2@iconz.co.nz> X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00175.html I have a script that generates a header and standard script that now fails if I run it under NT4.0 and B19 Cynus bash shell. I think it used to work, but it certainly does in Solaris. eg # make a dummy script ... various variables and setup options ... dates etc echo " # comments Date: $DATE commands lots more lines.... more than 1024 chars in total " > scriptname The resulting scriptname file is truncated. Sometimes bash core dumps. Is this a bash limit, an environment setting, an echo command limit, or what. If it is a built-in limit, what simple shell scripting techniques get around it? -- Kim Ollivier (Ollivier & Company Limited) kimo@iconz.co.nz 55 Balmain Road, PO Box 34 861,Birkenhead, North Shore City, NZ ph +64 9 418 2220 fax +64 9 480 2254 mob +64 25 593 769 Bus http://www.ollivier.webnz.co.nz Home http://www.iconz.co.nz/~kimo - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".