Argument list too long: /bin/bash

[Lorraine A. Malaspina]

I am getting the warning that call sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) returns -1 bytes when ARG_MAX is 4611686018427387903. My script is is 133040 bytes length and its not running.

[Cat Stevens]

Hey, could you post the output of getconf -a | grep LONG please.

[Mikhail Grigorev]

Hi,
I also had a problem with the script size 230790 bytes.

./myscript.bin: Argument list too long: / bin / bash

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch)
Release: 9.6
Codename: stretch

$ getconf -a | grep LONG
LONG_BIT 64
ULONG_MAX 18446744073709551615

What is the reason for this error and how can it be corrected?

[Lorraine A. Malaspina]

Hey, could you post the output of getconf -a | grep LONG please.

Hello there,

Sorry I didn't see you requested, here it is the output:

LONG_BIT 64
ULONG_MAX 18446744073709551615

[ramivis]

Hi, I have the similar problem.

If I run the shell, its OK. after compile using shc ./shc -r -T -f xxxx.sh

Argument list too long: /bin/ksh

[root@db1 shc-3.8.9b]# getconf -a | grep LONG
LONG_BIT 64
ULONG_MAX 18446744073709551615

Any workaround?

[ramivis]

with strace,

execve("/bin/ksh", ["xxxxxxxx"..., "-c", " "..., "xxxxxxxxxx/"...], [/* 27 vars */]) = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long)

@ramivis

[shredtmp]

Hi,

Did anyone get a workaround on this?

[suntong]

Solution is the pending #51

[MadTomT]

Did this every get resolved ?
I have the same issue.

[WϟLL]

shc have limit size with text that can obfuscate.

[SmartHomeBeginner]

I am struggling with this one too. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Paul Lee]

@htpcBeginner
Take a look at my variant which uses pipe instead of command line:
https://github.com/liberize/ssc