Good to know. Nothing like that shows<div>up on the web page, so I guess you just</div><div>have to ask. The "Unlimited" GBs<div>of space and transfer lines have stars next</div><div>to them, and when I click on the </div>
<div>"Policy" link I get an error. What to</div><div>make of that?<br><div><br></div><div>That's a very good price, sans </div><div>any gotchas. It's a promo price, so </div><div>another question is whether that carries</div>
<div>from year to year.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Tim Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com" target="_blank">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Justhost.com will give you a shell account after a verification phone call, on a $45 / year account. So far, they've been excellent.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 4, 2012 9:43 AM, "Bob Kline" <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
BASH being GNU's version of the shell, I'd<div>of thought the limit would be humongous. </div><div>As I mentioned, Stallman advocated decades</div><div>ago that programs use word lengths as limits.</div><div>In 1980 that would have been 8 and 16 bits</div>
<div>for PCs, but of course those didn't run Unix</div><div>yet. But 32-bit machines running Unix did</div><div>start to appear about 25 years ago. 32-bits</div><div>is a big limit, and today, 64-bits ought to </div>
<div>hold everybody....</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, the support person mentioned the</div><div>package FileZilla. If that uses xargs, then</div><div>yes, I agree that is the way to go. It then</div><div>probably gets around globbing altogether.</div>
<div>FTP works fine, even while it's 40 years old,</div><div>but for that feature, which I think is outdated</div><div>in its implementation. Perhaps globbing</div><div>doesn't scale well at some point. </div><div>
<br></div><div>I'd still prefer an ssh connection, but that</div><div>doesn't seem available, at least on low </div><div>budget hosting plans like mine.....</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Steve Romanow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slestak989@gmail.com" target="_blank">slestak989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think this is pretty typical on all the unix's I am aware of. The shell is just a program, and the developer had to choose a size for how long a command to accept and parse.<div><br></div><div>When globbing, it is easy to pass this limit. The xargs solution the support person mentioned is the default answer IMO.<br>
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