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Old 07-02-2008
Tools Record count problem using sed command

Hi,

I have a script which removes 2 header records and 1 trailer record in a list of files. The commands doing the actions are
sed '1,2d' $file > tempfile1.dat
sed '$d' < tempfile1.dat > $output.txt

Its working fine for all records except a file having size=1445509814 and number of records=13152342. The output has only 5297671 records instead of being just 3 less than the original count.
Is there any limitation on the number of records that the sed command can process?
Some details-
>uname -a
SunOS xx 5.10 SunOS_Development sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire

>df -k .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
xx 67091946 64377506 2043521 97% xx


>df -k /tmp
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
swap 17337536 1504840 15832696 9% xx
 

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fixnt(1)							      Debian								  fixnt(1)

NAME
fixnt - Filter for the Windows NT postscript printer driver. SYNOPSIS
fixnt < BADFILE.ps > GOODFILE.ps DESCRIPTION
The Windows NT postscript driver has a tendency to make broken postscript files, that are incompatible with psutils. fixnt is a filter that fixes these problems, allowing the use of psnup(1). The filter takes the broken postscript file on stdin, and outputs a fixed postscript file on stdout. It has no other form for invocation and takes no options on the command-line. OPTIONS
fixnt takes no options. BUGS
fixnt does not check for NTPSOct94. For a workaround, use a sed(1) command to replace 'NTPSOct94' with 'NTPSOct95', like so: sed 's/NTPSOct94/NTPSOct95/g' This is particularly important for Windows NT 3.5 users. AUTHOR
fixnt was written by Holger Bauer <Holger.Bauer@topmail.de>, Michael Rath <rath@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>, and Akim Demaille <demaille@inf.enst.fr>. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to the Authors, but avoid sending large postscript files. Patches are always welcome; send to <bauer@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>. SEE ALSO
psnup(1), sed(1) a2ps February 2003 fixnt(1)
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