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Limitation of record length in nawk
Hi! Does anyone know how long the input record can be in nawk? I believe it is 3000 characters i awk, but is it the same in nawk? Thanx in advance /Tobbe -
NAWK script
Hi Sethu! You can only have a limited number of pipes and files opened at the same time. I think that the limit is 20 in nawk. To avoid this error, you have to close the pipes with the close() command once you're done with them: "basename " filename | getline base close... -
How many open files?
Hi! Is there anyone who knows how many files can be open at the same time in nawk? Just curious... Tobbe -
Looping through environmental variable in awk.
Hi! I'm writing a large script that converts textfiles to html. The problem is that the script is supposed to check if there are textfiles to be converted on several computers. The computers names are stored in an environmental variable, like: COMPS_TO_CHECK="comp1 comp2 comp3 ..."...
