Shell Programming and Scripting

I am using getline to read a file in a BEGIN block:

Code:

BEGIN {  
	while ((getline < "testFile.html") > 0) { 
		print $0 > "text.html" 
	}
}

The file is a normal HTML file. For some reason that I have not been able to discover in the text of the file, getline never finishes and the file is not entirely written into "test.html". I wonder if anyone could shed any light on what might be happening, because I have not been able to track it down.

Thanks very much,

Enobarbus

Are any lines in the input file greater in length than

Code:

getconf LINE_MAX

That will cause termination

Thank you Jim for this tip.

I had made a stupid, stupid, stupid rookie mistake. The program was inadvertently set-up to take text from the command line and there was none forthcoming so it hung.

My deepest apologies for this post.

Enobarbus: