AWK script to print the first 50 lines of any text file?

[philthygeezer]

I've got some whopping big text files to deal with, and would like to view partial contents in order to determine how to handle them.

Thanks,
P

 

[PHV]

awk 'FNR<=50' list_of_files

In *nix: man head

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[philthygeezer]

I piped the command awk 'FNR<=50' hugefile.txt > junk2.txt

junk2.txt is created but it's empty.

 

[PHV]

Which OS ?

 

[olded]

Unfortunately, FNR is not portable across all versions of awk. If you run Solaris, use nawk.