Passing very long text as argument to a bash script file

Question

I got error "Argument list too long" when I pass a very long text as an argument to a script. For example:

./myScript.bash "${v_very_long_text}"

Is that a way to fix the error? thanks

Probably you have to change the way how to pass the data to your script. Show the code of your script and sample contents of `v_very_long_text` to get suggestions. — Bodo, Mar 04 '19 at 17:30
Or rewrite the script to read from a file, and make the filename the argument. — Paul Hodges, Mar 04 '19 at 17:32
Reading from stdin would allow putting the string in a here-doc — Barmar, Mar 04 '19 at 17:51
Possible duplicate of [Argument list too long error for rm, cp, mv commands](https://stackoverflow.com/q/11289551/608639) — jww, Mar 05 '19 at 01:12

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '19 at 19:16

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Method 1:

echo "${v_very_long_text}" > text_file.txt
./myScript.bash $(cat text_file.txt)

Method 2:

tee text_file.txt <<EOF
line 1
line 2
line 3
EOF

./myScript.bash $(cat text_file.txt)

answered Mar 04 '19 at 19:16

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