Maximum command line arguments

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

Can anyone please help me to know what is the maximum number of command line arguments that we can pass in unix shell script?

Thanks in advance,
Punitha.S

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Hi.

The article at The maximum length of arguments for a new process (updated recently) discusses this for many flavors of *nix.

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Hi Drl,

Thank you, i searched in the forum, But i cant get the exact answer :confused:.
Can you please tell me what is the maximum number of parameteres we can pass to the script in ksh?

Is there any command in unix to find out this?

Thanks in advance,
Punitha