Find limit of recursion: Difference between revisions

=={{header|UNIX Shell}}==

{{works with|Bourne Again SHell}}

<lang bash>recurse()

{

# since the example runs slowly, the following

# if-elif avoid unuseful output; the elif was

# added after a first run ended with a segmentation

# fault after printing "10000"

if [[ $(($1 % 5000)) -eq 0 ]]; then

echo $1;

elif [[ $1 -gt 10000 ]]; then

echo $1

fi

recurse $(($1 + 1))

}

recurse 0</lang>

The Bash reference manual says <cite>No limit is placed on the number of recursive calls</cite>, nonetheless a segmentation fault occurs at 13777 (Bash v3.2.19 on 32bit GNU/Linux)