Bash: “I Can’t Eat Another Byte”

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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Comments (2)

  1. Danny Howard wrote::

    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

    Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 2:58 AM #
  2. apokalyptik wrote::

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

    Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 3:33 AM #