Re: How to redirect stderr and stdout of QSH into a java program

Hello,

The way I'd typically do this from a command line in a *nix environment (including QSH) is by using the 'xargs' command. xargs bascially takes a base command and then reads input arguments from stdin and keeps adding them to the base until the maximum shell command length is reached. It will then execute the command and start the process again by reading more arguments from stdin.

Let's assume that the command length limit is two arguments. If 'ls' returns:

one
two
three
four

then 'ls | xargs echo' would run two commands:

echo one two
echo three four

xargs works great if you need to pass a list of filenames or similar, but if you have more complicated requirements for argument logic then it can get tricky or impossible to get your desired results through this method. As always, YMMV.

t.

On 23-Oct-2007, at 2:34 PM, David Gibbs wrote:

bill.blalock@xxxxxxxx wrote:

"Does a script processed by qsh have a limit on the length of a command?
If so what are the tricks to get around it? (continuation or whatever)"

I've run into limits on what the Windows 2000 command processor in terms
of length of the command. I was wondering what limits are on a qsh
command, particularly one built in a script.

Sorry, this I cannot answer.

Perhaps someone else has more experience in qshell?

david

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