[GLLUG] sed memory limit?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:36:56AM +0100, Oliver Howe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does sed have a limit as to how much data you can send to it as an argument?

It tends to load everything into memory in some circumstances, leading
to this extremely annoying bug which I've been encountering weekly for
several years:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636045

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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