[9fans] awk script weirdness

[9fans] awk script weirdness

[Gregory Pavelcak]

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.

The above script quits with

awk: can't open file d�\x04
 input record ../indis.ms:830
 source line 3

While

awk '
	BEGIN	{i=0}
	/^\.([lp]p|hd|xm\/)/	{i=i+1; print >> i; next}
			{print >> i}
' ../indis.ms

quits with:

awk: can't open file D\x04\x06
 input record ../indis.ms:830
 source line 3

Any ideas?

Greg

Re: [9fans] awk script weirdness

[Sape Mullender]

> 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

Re: [9fans] awk script weirdness

[Gregory Pavelcak]

>> 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

Re: [9fans] awk script weirdness

[Victor Nazarov]

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