in reply to Is there a limit on STDIN string size 259?

i think jeroenes has got it. I have a group of Solaris machine (varying versions), and the ksh that comes with the OS has a command line limit of 256 charcters from what i have seen. To run any command longer than that, i have to break it up using \'s, switch shells, or put the command into a file and run it (as it only appears to be an interactive ksh problem). If you are not using ksh, then i would still take a look into this problem on whichever shell you are using, as it is possible they all share this on Solaris.
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Ah, it does seem to be my ksh
by Malus (Acolyte) on Nov 15, 2001 at 22:41 UTC
    Yes, I am using the ksh for solaris 7.

    When entering into <STDIN> is that passing
    through the korn shell? I can't seem to escape that \$
    end of line character. Is there a way around this without
    using a test file? (a file is looking like a fine idea right
    about now though)

    Thank you for you help.
    Malus

    PS
    I have repeated my problem on the following:
    SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m: perl v5.6.1 sun4-sunos
    IRIX 6.5 IP32: perl v5.004_04
    HP-UX B.11.00 9000/785: perl v4.0.36 (breaks on the 8th 65char string)
    HP-UX B.10.20 9000/785: perl v5.6.1 PA-RISC1.1 (breaks on 8th, also)
    FreeBSD 4.3 i386: perl v5.005_03 i386-freebsd (breaks on 16th word, 65char)

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