CLI Companion

length of command limited?

Asked by Julian Rombach

Hi.

Question: Is there a limit to the possible length of a command? Maybe it is defined by the maximum length of a line in the file .clicompanion.

Thanks

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) said : 		#1

I have not reached a maximum command length but would be interested to know if anyone determines what that might be.

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stlsaint (stlsaint) said : 		#2

Since CLI companion uses your regular terminal with all standard commands included, with the use of xargs i say there is no limit.

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Julian Rombach (julian-rombach) said : 		#3

Wow. If this is true then this program is a mighty and diabolic tool. Does anyone know some free code which writes a whole shell script of some length into one single command by putting in some &&s and ;s and some Brackets and replacing linebreak+'}' by '; }' ? If anyone does then you should deliver the program together with this code and say: "Hey, you can take any shellscript you like and transmute it into one single command, if you like to use the input capacities CLI Command instead of other templates like zenity."