You could feed the files twice, like so:
Then you can test if the second round of files is coming like so for example:
ARGV[1] contains the first filename. If the current filename FILENAME equals ARGV[1] for the second time, you will have processed all the files once...
This way you would need to store a lot less information
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Or you can do it like this, setting the variable half-way. Then you do not have to test inside, which might be a speed advantage:
and inside the awk script:
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I have list of multiple files with 7 fields all together. Those are being split to exact lines of 20000 each.
xaa
xab
:
:
:
xhx
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