Re: {bb} Ext issue not displaying to BBDISPLAY

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:31, John Thrumston wrote:
> That helped thanks. At least now I know what is causing it.
> 
> It says the parameter list is too long. I am going to guess that means
> there are too many lines in the errpt. I need to figure out how to par
> that down or change the line count somewhere in BB.
> 
> Thanks for the tip!

That would be my interpretation too. "Parameter list too long" is
normally produced by the shell when the command line length limit
is exceeded.

To test, you could try sending the output to a file and compare the
size to the value given in the system header files. I've seen this
given as ARG_MAX in /usr/include/sys/limits.h on AIX.

To fix, you could add a "cut" command to limit the quantity of the
data that the script will report, or modify it to use files (keeping
the data out of command lines as it it processed) and feed it to the
"bb" command on stdin:

  cat tempfile | $BB $BBDISP -

I think that you might also be able to use "xargs" to build long
command lines, but I don't remember ever having to do that.

Cheers, Phil.



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