From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:48:04 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] how to print a program Topicbox-Message-UUID: 52637852-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > (Is awk line length-limited?) you can test stuff like this yourself: ; dd -if /dev/zero -bs 8192 -count 10 | tr '\0' 'x' | awk '{print length($1)}' 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 81920 - erik