Note that with 20 fields on each of 3,000 input records being combined into 200 output lines, your average output lines with have 300 fields and some lines could have many more. You don't give us any indication of what system you're using, nor of the contents of most of the input fields. The awk utility and most editors are only defined to work on text files, and by definition, lines in a text file can't be longer than LINE_MAX bytes (including the terminating newline character). (Try:
to determine the value of LINE_MAX on your system. The standards only require that implementations support lines up to 2,048 bytes per line.) Are you sure that none of your output lines exceed LINE_MAX?
If you ask awk to print a line that is longer than LINE_MAX bytes long, the results are unspecified. If you use ed, ex, grep, sed, vi (or any of LOTS of other standard utilities that are described as processing text files) to read or write or create internal lines longer than LINE_MAX bytes long, the results are unspecified. There are very few standard text processing utilities that are defined to work on lines with arbitrary lengths (cut, fold, and paste).
Can some-one give me a view to this :
I have a directory in an unix server, having permissions r-xr-xr-x .This directory is basically a source directory.
Now there is another directory basically the destination directory which has all the permissions.
Note:I log in as not the owner,but user... (5 Replies)
$ echo a.bc | sed -e "s/\|/\\|/g"
|a|.|b|c|
$
Is the behavior of the sed statement expected ? Or is this a bug in sed ?
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Linux 2.6.9-55.0.0.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 2 14:59:56 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I got a strange problem here. I have a perl script which is fetching data from a database table and writing a file with that data.
If i run that script from linux command line, the file it creates is a normal ascii text file without any binary character in it.But... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I was trying to identify lines who has a word of the following pattern "xyyx" (where x, and ys are different characters).
I was trying the following grep -
egrep '(\S)()\2\1'
This pattern do catches the wanted pattern, but it also catches "GGGG" or "CCCC" patterns. I was trying to... (5 Replies)
Hi,
We have a problem where occasionally an ssh will hang for no apparent reason preventing the rest of the script continuing. To deal with this I am trying to write a wrapper script to kill a hung ssh command after a specified period.
The scripts use a sleep command running in the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Today I have found the following case in perl:
print "length:$lengths\tsum:". $count{$lengths}+$count_pair{$lengths}."\tindi:$count{$lengths}\t$count_pair{$lengths}\n";This give output as That means the first part of print is not printing. Only the values after the additions are printed.... (5 Replies)
Can someone please explain the strange behaviour.. I was just trying a few things to learn awk..
in the below code when I start the braces in the same line, the output is as expected, when I start at next line, output is displayed twice.
Please see the file, code I tried and output below.
... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a text file containing output from a command that contains lots of escape/control characters that when viewed using vi or view, looks like jibberish. But when viewed using the cat command the output is formatted properly.
Is there any way to take the output from the cat... (7 Replies)
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factor
FACTOR(6) BSD Games Manual FACTOR(6)NAME
factor -- factor a number
SYNOPSIS
factor [number ...]
DESCRIPTION
The factor utility factors integers larger than 1. When a number is factored, it is printed, followed by a ``:'', and the list of (prime)
factors on a single line. Factors are listed in ascending order, and are preceded by a space. If a factor divides a value more than once,
it will be printed more than once.
When factor is invoked with one or more arguments, each argument will be factored.
When factor is invoked with no arguments, factor reads numbers, one per line, from standard input, until end of file or error. Leading
white-space and empty lines are ignored. Numbers may be preceded by a single +. Integer less than 2 are rejected. Numbers are terminated
by a non-digit character (such as a newline). After a number is read, it is factored. Input lines must not be longer than LINE_MAX - 1
(currently 2047) characters.
By default, factor is compiled against the OpenSSL bignum implementation openssl_bn(3), which lets it handle arbitrarily large values. (Note
however that very large values can take a very long time to factor.) If factor is compiled without OpenSSL it is limited to the maximum value
of unsigned long.
DIAGNOSTICS
Out of range or invalid input results in an appropriate error message being written to standard error.
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