[rrd-developers] rrdtool args too long for shell - solution

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Richard,


Yesterday rik1083 wrote:

>
> Hi Guys
> Thanks for your wonderful tool, I use it all the time.
> I've been hitting a problem while combining several rrds into a single
> graph, for example:
> 300 rrds, 14 datasources in each.. and combining them all
> basically 100's if not 1000's of arguements
> The problem is that the shell was hitting a length limit!
> My solution - write args to text file (1 per line) and pass the filename as
> [...]

or you could use the '-' syntax in rrdtool:

write all your arguments into a textfile (all on the same line)
with chr(10) at the end of the line

and run

type file | rrdtool -

cheers
tobi

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