File too large unix

Lokesha 4 Replies. Need help. Hi All, I am trying to schedule a one time job using the at command with the help of shell script for my project. The shell script should take a parameter as a command line argument from the at command itself.

Is it possible to take a command line parameter for a shell script in the command RedHat Commands. OpenSolaris Commands. Linux Commands. SunOS Commands. FreeBSD Commands. Full Man Repository. Advanced Search. Contact Us.

Forum Rules. Mark Forums Read. Also look at the ulimit command. It can limit the size of any file. Shell Programming and Scripting. Large Variable content size caveats? Hi, I wrote a shell script, which let me manage dns records through an api.

Hi All, This is my first post here. Hoping to share and gain knowledge from this great forum!!!! I've scanned this forum before posting my problem here, but I'm afraid I couldn't find any thread that addresses this exact problem. I'm trying to split a large XML file with multiple tag Red Hat. Empty directory, large size and performance. Hi, I've some directory that I used as working directory for a program.

At the end of the procedure, the content is deleted. This directory, when I do a ls -l, appears to still take up some space. After a little research, I've seen on a another board of this forum that it's not really taking I am but one programmer. Robins appreciated that answer. Failing that, you may be running up against a compiled in limit reported to be in some versions of vi. If you have root access or can get it, try editing your file as root. Their vi, or at least some of its incarnations, has a "filesize limit.

Get the real vi from BSD or Sun and the problem will go "away. It'll handle just under k before spitting out that message. Tue, 10 Aug GMT n.. I assume it's to prevent resource conflicts on some of the smaller machines they market. If that's so, then you would think that they would send me a version with no limit or at least a much larger limit, right?

I guess I'll just work around it by splitting up the larger files, editing, and putting them back together again. Thanks again to all those who responded. John Robinson John S. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Delivery error File too large messag file too big Ask Question. Asked 5 years ago. Active 1 year, 2 months ago. Viewed 5k times. Getmail is set to download mails from my remote mail server to my smarthost.

This machine is using OSX