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Old 10-02-2006
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As a guess - the line length is 2045. When grep attempts to write the line number
plus the original line, then the 2048 limit for I/O is exceeded.

Edit -
I cannot duplicate this problem, the line size limit is not the same.

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 10-02-2006 at 12:25 PM..