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Reputation: 3672

Using echo with redirection with input longer than 8192 characters - What are my options, aside from creating a temporary file?

In a Windows command prompt you can use the following technique to send stdin to somecommand:

echo Hello, World! | somecommand

However, what if your Hello, World! input was actually a base 64 string that was around 10,000 characters?

I tried doing this with a test .exe but I kept getting the error "Input line is too long".

I know there is a way to do this by creating a temporary file and feeding that file to somecommand, but I would like to know if it were possible without creating a temporary file.

Do I have any other options? Could I write some C# to open up a custom input stream? I have also tried going the new Process() route in ASP.NET but encountered the same "Input line is too long" error.

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