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User defined variable in KSH shell

rohit kumar gupta — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:58:39 GMT

I just want to know how many user variable can defined in ksh shell ?
is ther any limit for defining no of variable ?

Re: User defined variable in KSH shell

Pete Randall — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:08:22 GMT

I've never heard of such a limit. You could take a look at "man ksh".

Pete

Re: User defined variable in KSH shell

rariasn — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:30:23 GMT

Hi,

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1433533

rgs

Re: User defined variable in KSH shell

muruganantham raju — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:54:20 GMT

Hi Rohit,
You can define 1000s of variable. It is not recommended to use too many user variables.

Regards,
Muru

Re: User defined variable in KSH shell

Bill Hassell — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:39:16 GMT

You can create thousands and thousands of variables. However, like any 32bit program, the data that you assign to each variable must be stored in memory and ksh is limited to about 900 MB of local memory. Similarly, you can assign a single variable dozens of megabytes of data, in which case you can only create a few that are very large before exceeding local memory limits.