How many arguments..

[dillipkumar]

Hi,

Can anybody tell me the answer of that question:

Maximum how many arguments we can pass a shell script??



Thanks,
DKS

[Tarantulus]

I dunno about other OSes but on solaris

getconf ARG_MAX

will answer that for you

although I believe that as environmentals are passed using the same memoryspace as args, you would need to do X - Y where X is the output of the above command and Y is the number of environmental variables on the set in the current shell.