ulimit

Get and set user limits.

• Get the properties of all the user limits:

ulimit -a

• Get hard limit for the number of simultaneously opened files:

ulimit -H -n

• Get soft limit for the number of simultaneously opened files:

ulimit -S -n

• Set max per-user process limit:

ulimit -u 30

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