ulimit

all

Get and set resource limits for user processes. This is a shell builtin hence not shell-agnostic.

Examples (5)

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

Display help (Bash only)

help ulimit