NAWK script

[sethu]

Hi,

My NAWK script is giving me an error. In my script there is a line like this

"basename " filename | getline base

I am getting an error like this

nawk: basename "/u01/metar/people/data/Source/test.mst" makes too many open files

Can anybody help me?

Sethu

 

[tobbe]

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 ("basename&quot

I hope it helped...

/Tobbe