Re: awk/perl?

It looks like you want

/usr/bin/perl -pe 's/lrw......./\n/g;'
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it works fine *except* on flat files that have more than 199 records (awk's limit, it turns out).

Somehow I doubt that. If awk only worked on files of less than 200 records, that would severely limit its utility. Perhaps your particular version of awk is crippled?

PerlJam

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Re: Re: awk/perl? by Taulmarill (Deacon) on Dec 16, 2003 at 16:27 UTC
i think awk is limited to the records in one line, but can process as many lines as you whant.	[reply]
Re: Re: awk/perl? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 16, 2003 at 20:56 UTC
For interest sake, from the options section of the gawk manpage: `-mf NNN -mr NNN Set various memory limits to the value NNN. The f flag sets the maximum number of fields, and the r flag sets the maximum record size. These two flags and the -m option are from the Bell Labs research version of UNIX awk. They are ignored by gawk, since gawk has no pre-defined limits.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]