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Gregory Pavelcak wrote:

>I've been trying to break a large .ms-like file into smaller
>files with awk with variations on the following script
>
>awk '
>	BEGIN	{i=0}
>	/^\.([lp]p|hd|xm\/)/	{print >> ++i; next}
>			{print >> i}
>' ../indis.ms
>
>Whatever I do, it will work fine creating the first 85 files
>then quit.
>
>
[snip]

>
>Any ideas?
>
>
awk '

	BEGIN	{i=0}
	/^\.([lp]p|hd|xm\/)/	{close i; i++; print >> i; next}
			{print >> i}
' ../indis.ms