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    not really answering the question - the problem is passing large amounts of data on command line. Commented Aug 4, 2014 at 22:34
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    @peterph - which this does. this is a file descriptor - not an argument. Commented Aug 4, 2014 at 22:43
  • Yup, it works but still i have "\n" in the output. Namely # cat output | wc -w returns 40001 ; while # cat output | wc -l returns 1 Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 10:46
  • @PierfrancescoPierQRAiello: You may be able to use string replacement (see edit), but if that isn't part of your minimal ash you'll probably have to go to sed. Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 21:21
  • many thanks! Would have been enough to have some hints, while I got a long explanation that required time! Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 7:06