[Cialug] Bash memory <?> problem

[L. V. Lammert]

Trying to extract emails from an archive using a variation on "Simple 
but Perfect" mbox to Maildir converter, .. the script is choking on 
the 3rd message:

# ./extract_email rhart < $(zcat mail_backup-20120101.tar.gz)
-bash: xrealloc: ../subst.c:4489: cannot reallocate 268435456 bytes 
(0 bytes allocated)

Seems to be some sort of memory issue? The system is a Mandrake from 
2008, .. Perl is 5.8.8.

Anyone have a suggestion on how to isolate the problem?

	Lee