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From: j@werner.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xargs and ARG_MAX
Date: 15 Sep 1995 11:58:56 +0200
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G. Ioannou <gi101@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>Something similar to this is also stated in the manpage.  My
>question is this: what is ARG_MAX, and therefore, what is the
>maximum command line length in FreeBSD?

Ask you sysctl command: sysctl -a.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)