I have to parse a file with many regular expressions. I would like to do that with a concatenation of sed ‘replace’ commands. So the question is how many sed commands, at maximum, i can concatenate in a bash pipe?
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I have to parse a file with many regular expressions. I would like to do that with a concatenation of sed ‘replace’ commands. So the question is how many sed commands, at maximum, i can concatenate in a bash pipe?
As far as I know, there is no limit on the number of pipes, as the commands are simply executed one after the other. The only limit would be the quantity of data passed in through the pipe, or the “Pipe Buffer Limit.”
See here for more details: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11946/how-big-is-the-pipe-buffer