passing a long argument

[souri datta <so...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
 I am trying to pass a list of names to my pig script through cmd line as
follows:
 -param names = `cat /tmp/names.txt'



But when I try to start the pig script I am getting error: *Argument list
too long*
(something seen in shell when running command with '*' like ls */ rm * )

Is there a way to achieve this thing somehow?
I am using this list inside a udf and I dont want to keep this file in hdfs.

Thanks in advance,
Souri