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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Editing 1st or nth column Post 302340066 by darshanw on Sunday 2nd of August 2009 09:57:40 AM
Old 08-02-2009
For the second option from malcom: I am gettign awk error
awk: record `100|1||0001|296292323...' has too many fields -- I have 3350 columns in each line separated by delimiter.
Any way the awk messages can be suppressed?

---------- Post updated at 07:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:24 PM ----------

Looks like awk is giving problems for all for too mnay columns everywhere.
 

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NAME
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#include <sys/inotify.h> int inotify_rm_watch(int fd, int wd); DESCRIPTION
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EBADF fd is not a valid file descriptor. EINVAL The watch descriptor wd is not valid; or fd is not an inotify file descriptor. VERSIONS
Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel. CONFORMING TO
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