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Old 10-26-2011
awk failure - wraping input line
awk is failing because of input file is greater than 3000 bytes.

,'11 cannot be longer than 3,000 bytes.
The input line number is 1.13071e+06. The file is abc.txt.
The source line number is 1.

Is there any way to wrap the input lines to avoid this error ? (or) adding newline character at every 2000 position of input line ?

Thanks,
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Old 10-26-2011
you can look into 'man fold', but you're hitting the awk's limitation...
Do you have 'gawk' installed? Or 'nawk'?
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Old 10-26-2011
gawk and nawk is not installed. I tried folding the lines, but after that i am getting same error , strange Smilie
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Old 10-26-2011
Just curius - what's your awk script?
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Old 10-26-2011
I am using the script given be agama:

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...rch-count.html
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