[pmwiki-users] Faster searches and categories

Martin Fick fick at fgm.com
Mon Sep 12 16:38:17 CDT 2005


On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:47:17PM -0400, Martin Fick wrote:
> > Yes, the shell command line was already filled on my setup,
> > thus the use of the environment variable. :)  
> 
> The use of the environment variable doesn't eliminate
> the shell command line restrictions; in
> 
>     F=`...`; grep ... $F
> 
> the shell still has to expand and parse $F for the grep command
> (and the result has to fit within the command line length).


Yes, I guess so, but it did not work when I broke the command
into two systems calls, one for the find and one for the grep.
Maybe php has a lower limit than the shell.

-Martin




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