[LCP]Awk query ?

[Keith Schincke]

POSIX has a defination of the max args as 4096 (_POSIX_ARG_MAX in 
bits/posix1_lim.h for me)

Linux has a ARG_MAX of 131072 (linux/limits.h)

Erik Mouw wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:53:53AM -0800, Santosh.Kawade at eyield.com wrote:
>
>>Is there any upper limit for files beyond which awk/sed (text processing
>>tools) cannot work ?
>>
>
>The original AT&T UNIX utilities had some arbitrary limits, but the GNU
>variants are usually only limited by the amount of memory available to
>the process or the maximum filesize supported by the OS. For more
>information: read the source.
>
>>if so why ?
>>
>
>Because you still can't buy memory modules and hard disks with
>inifinite storage capacity?
>
>
>Erik
>