Bash: “I Can’t Eat Another Byte”

13 Sep

apokalyptik |  September 13th,2007 | CLI, Funny Stuff, Linux, Random Thoughts |  2 comments

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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2 Responses

  1. Danny Howard says:
    September 13, 2007 at 10:58 am

    Your bash is broken. In the old days we accepted limitation on our shell’s globs and piped this sort of thing through xargs.

    -danny

  2. apokalyptik says:
    September 13, 2007 at 11:33 am

    :) I eneded up just rm -r’ing the directory, since it wasnt needed anyways

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