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Old 10-18-2008
Awk cannot handle more than 30 files
I trying to search for lines with multiple search criterias in an archive of zipped files. But awk seems to have a limit.

Any idea how to fix it?

I'm on a sun solaris system.

Here is my search string:

gzcat -r *200808* | awk -v 'substr($0,50,11)=="11095512309" || substr($0,50,11)=="11090976301" && substr($0,143,4)=="TEST" {print $0}'
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Old 10-18-2008
Use nawk on Solaris and see what you get.
# 3  
Old 10-19-2008
nawk seems to work in a different way, it ask for a program, i dont get how it work from the man page
# 4  
Old 10-20-2008
Why are you using -v option, its not required in this case, try this:
Code:
gzcat -r *200808* | xargs nawk 'substr($0,50,11)=="11095512309" || substr($0,50,11)=="11090976301" && substr($0,143,4)=="TEST" {print $0}'

 
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