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Are we correct in assuming that each heading on the 1st line for the last 2313 fields are the single letter V followed by unique non-negative integers?

What output do you get from running the following three commands:

Code:

uname -a

getconf LINE_MAX

awk -F'\t' '
lNF != NF	{print "NF=" (lNF = NF), "NR=" NR}
length() > lm	{lm = length()}
END		{print "Max length=" lm}
' file

where file is the name of the file that contains your data.

Note that, by definition, a text file contains no lines that contain more than LINE_MAX (which is 2048 on most systems) bytes in a line (including the <newline> terminator) and most of the UNIX text processing utilities (like awk, sed, and sort) are only defined to work on text files. If the file containing your data has 2317 fields and LINE_MAX is 2048 on your system, the file containing your data is not a text file. Some versions of these utilities work even if the input files have line lengths longer than those required by the standards; other versions of these utilities will give you an error if they encounter long lines; and other versions will silently ignore some data if they encounter long lines. Hopefully, the awk script above will give us an indication of how your implementation of awk will behave. (We hope that it will just print two lines of output on standard output and not print any diagnostics.)

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comm

comm(1) 							   User Commands							   comm(1)

NAME

       comm - select or reject lines common to two files

SYNOPSIS

       comm [-123] file1 file2

DESCRIPTION

       The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which must be ordered in the current collating sequence, and produces three text columns as output:
       lines only in file1; lines only in file2; and lines in both files.

       If the input files were ordered according to the collating sequence of the current locale, the lines  written  will  be	in  the  collating
       sequence of the original lines. If not, the results are unspecified.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -1	Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file1.

       -2	Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file2.

       -3	Suppresses the output column of lines duplicated in file1 and file2.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       file1	A path name of the first file to be compared. If file1 is -, the standard input is used.

       file2	A path name of the second file to be compared. If file2 is -, the standard input is used.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of comm when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Printing a list of utilities specified by files

       If file1, file2, and file3 each contain a sorted list of utilities, the command

       example% comm -23 file1 file2  | comm -23 - file3

       prints a list of utilities in file1 not specified by either of the other files. The entry:

       example% comm -12 file1 file2 | comm -12 - file3

       prints a list of utilities specified by all three files. And the entry:

       example% comm -12  file2 file3 | comm -23 -file1

       prints a list of utilities specified by both file2 and file3, but not specified in file1.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See  environ(5)	for  descriptions  of  the  following  environment  variables that affect the execution of comm: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE,
       LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	All input files were successfully output as specified.

       >0	An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cmp(1), diff(1), sort(1), uniq(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    3 Mar 2004								   comm(1)

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