UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

A perplexing mystery...

please note that i am not a lacky, and the error below is misleading

recently something i do all the time broke (a script).

now when i run this script i get this error.

/usr/bin/awk: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.

note that the (parameter list is NOT too long.) it seems to only get this error when it is executed within the script. if i take this part of the script out and run it on its own it works fine.

furthermore if i (this is the perplexing part)

ssh hostname

and then run the script it works fine!!!! (odd)

if i do (in the terminal that i ssh to that script work worked in)

set > tmp

and then set the tmp ENV vars in the terminal that the script does not work in and try the script, i still get this error.

my qestion, what is the ENV var that controls "parameter list" length? why would the script reset this in one shell and not the other?


Any thoughts?

Have you saved the file in a windows editor? It should be helpful if you post your script.

Regards

Gotta be a different PATH resulting in a different awk. /usr/bin/awk on Solaris is antique. Using Solaris?

Code:

# showrev -p | awk '{print $2}' > /dev/null
awk: record `Patch: 108528-29 Obs...' has too many fields
 record number 13
# PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
# showrev -p | awk '{print $2}' > /dev/null
#

$ which awk
/usr/bin/awk

$ ssh hostname
/usr/bin/awk

same path,,,, not diff awk. I am on AIX

Franklin52 the code is very long, but you asked for it. i point to proprietary software, and you will not actaly be able to run this. but the awk statments are there.

oh one more piece to the puzzled is -- if i have another user run the same script they do not get this error, and this is the odd part, our .profiles and equal, as i set their system up in the first place!

Try to increase the max length of the command line, check out this link:

AIX: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long (6625591)

Regards