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Re: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set


On Sep 16 14:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I observerd that tcsh doesn't like variables with a length of 31K,
> though.  ash, bash, zsh and pdksh could handle that long environment
> varibale just fine, tcsh on the other hand printed this:
> 
>   $ echo $VERY_LONG_ENV_VAR
>   Word too long.

Never mind, that's a normal limitation of tcsh.  THe same happens on
Linux.  The actual limit seems to be somewhat below BUFSIZ.


Corinna

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