It's not the case very often these days but it used to be quite simple to blow up your script globbing in a directory with a lot of files and you can still hit

It's not the case very often these days but it used to be quite simple to blow up your script globbing in a directory with a lot of files and you can still hit the limit if you pass a glob to some command because it can blow up trying to execve() Here's more details of the issue and some workarounds https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120642/what-defines-the-maximum-size-for-a-command-single-argument https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120642/what-defines...