Daily Archives: September 13th, 2007

Bash: “I Can’t Eat Another Byte”

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

root@server:/dir/ # ls | wc -l 1060731 root@server:/dir/ # for i in *; do rm -v $i done; done me@home:~/ # HUH? Turns out that bash just couldn’t eat another byte, and next time I logged in I saw this: “bash[5469]: segfault at 0000007fbf7ffff8 rip 00000000004749bf rsp 0000007fbf7fffe0 error 6“… Impressive

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