awk gives an error of " too many fields "

[Yacov]

I am trying to work with a file which have 318 fields per record. when using awk I am getting &quot; too many fields &quot; error when trying to do any thing with awk<br>
awk '{print NF}' file gives this error.<br>
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Any suggestions how to proccess this file, using awk ?

 

[djenkins]

unfortunately, one of awk's limitation is a field number restriction of 99 fields. Not sure of how to get around this unless you use a nested format of fields.

 

[jfm1]

Try using nawk, it works for me when parsing large Openview<br>SNMP records that give that same error when using awk.

 

[ElgisRamon]

Yeah! Try using gawk better, it doesn't have artificial limits... it can work with all your files if you have enough memory.

I hope it works...