NOTE: Argument list too long indicates when a user feeds too many arguments into a single command which hits the ARG_MAX limit.

• The ARG_MAX defines the maximum length of arguments to the exec function.
• This limit for the length of a command is imposed by the operating system.
  • You can check the limit for maximum arguments on your Linux system using this command:

    getconf ARG_MAX

  • Which will return something like this:

    root@server1:~# getconf ARG_MAX
    2097152