05-08-2003
I made the correction but I it didn't help. I read somewhere that there is a limit (54 byte) that can be read at any one time, is that true? The suggestion was to set the ulimit to 99999 to bypass this limit but it didn't help (I think I saw that in one of the postings here).
The file I'm working on contains only 10 test records but the record length are 120 in length.
When I put each column into a variable, anything after a certain point, in this case, I said 'g', would be blank and will not print. So my guess is that they're not being read. I'm thinking that it might be the 54 byte limit that is preventing me from seeing those fields.
I'm not sure what is going on. It's not difficult to duplicate the awk command line above so I know I'm not messing up there.
I would be surprised by this limitation so it must be the way I'm handling variable declarations in the while loop?
Is this also the only option when you do not have a delimiter, like a pipe or space or tab because it would have been easy to use FS="|", etc?
Thanks.
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ulimit(2) System Calls Manual ulimit(2)
NAME
ulimit() - get and set user limits
SYNOPSIS
Remarks
The ANSI C "" construct denotes a variable length argument list whose optional [or required] members are given in the associated comment
DESCRIPTION
provides for control over process limits. Available values for cmd are:
Get the file size limit of the process.
The limit is in units of 512-byte blocks and is inherited by child processes. Files of any size can be read.
The optional second argument is not used.
Set the file size limit of the process to the value
of the optional second argument which is taken as a long. Any process can decrease this limit, but only a
process with the privilege can increase the limit. Note that the limit must be specified in units of 512-byte
blocks.
Get the maximum possible break value
(see brk(2)). Depending on system resources such as swap space, this maximum might not be attainable at a given
time. The optional second argument is not used.
Security Restrictions
Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the privilege. Processes owned by the superuser have this privilege.
Processes owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system configuration. See privileges(5) for more information about
privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, a non-negative value is returned. Errors return a -1, with set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
fails if one or more of the following conditions is true.
cmd is not in the correct range.
fails and the limit is unchanged if a process
without the privilege attempts to increase its file size limit.
SEE ALSO
brk(2), write(2), privileges(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
ulimit(2)