Timeline for How do I add text to the beginning of a file in Bash?
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| Apr 4, 2013 at 16:01 | history | edited | Rucent88 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2013 at 1:48 | comment | added | Rucent88 |
As far as I'm aware, it's only limited by the amount of memory available. I've filled up variables well over 100MB into memory. text=$(cat file). Be careful to only use text though, because shell variables aren't binary clean mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/058
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| Jan 9, 2013 at 22:59 | comment | added | nixda | Just to ask the obvious question: Where's the character limit of shell variables? | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 22:49 | history | answered | Rucent88 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |