From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <51d49158ec2fafaa52b75a689b4b2017@comcast.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] awk script weirdness From: Gregory Pavelcak Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:13:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <48219bedd70f6663fdff8110c25bf669@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e58b86c4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> Whatever I do, it will work fine creating the first 85 files >> then quit. > > You're running out of file resources internal to awk. > > Sape Thanks. Just as your message came in I found my O'Reilly `sed and awk' and the section on awk's internal limitations. I'm relieved that's all it is. Greg