ulimit

Provides control over the resources available to the shell and to processes started by it, on systems that allow such control.

Documentation

• ulimit [EN] @ GNU Bash Reference Manual

• bash -c 'help ulimit'
• man 1 'bash' [EN]

Syntax

ulimit [PARAMETER ...] [LIMIT]

Parameters

-c

The maximum size of core files created.

-H

Use the hard resource limit.

-S

Use the soft resource limit.

Examples

Prevents the Bash from dumping core

ulimit -c 0 --