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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help splitting huge single record file Post 302578858 by Corona688 on Friday 2nd of December 2011 03:07:00 PM
Old 12-02-2011
Those commands are trying to load the entire line into memory at once, which won't work on a 64 32-bit system since there's a 4GB limit on per-process memory and sufficient clutter in the way that you probably can't get an entire 2.5G in one chunk.

How big are the individual records? You can tell awk to use things other than \n as a record separator, changing its definition of lines:

Code:
$  awk -v RS='\\*end\\*' '1' < data
RANDOMDATA
RANDOMDATA
RANDOMDATA
RANDOMDATA
$

Use nawk or gawk if you have it.
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NAME

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FILES

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