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Old 10-11-2008
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Originally Posted by rubin
I see ..., most likely you're running an old version of awk, maybe you can use a different tool like cut or sed, that might support more bytes in the input line.
Code:
getconf LINE_MAX

will show you the max line size your unix tools can handle. 2048 is common.
 
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