piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (10/11/89)
In article <DMAUSTIN.89Oct10145918@vivid.sun.com>, dmaustin@vivid (Darren Austin) writes:
`Hi all,
` I am trying to split up a large output file into several
`smaller files. The smaller files are named after the value in
`the second field. I tried using the following simple awk script,
`
`(current == $2) {print > current".summary"}
`(current != $2) {close(current".summary");current=$2;print > current".summary";}
`
`but it fails with
`
`awk: too many output files 10
`
`so apparently it is running out of file descriptors. I thought
`that would be taken care of by using the "close" function. Am I
`using it incorrectly, or am I doing something else wrong? Is
I've never heard of close. That must be one of those modern things.
`there a better way to do this with other tools?
`
1. Let awk generate a shell script, and run that through sh.
(current == $2) {print}
(current != $2) {if (current) print "Some-funny-eof-sequence";
current=$2;
print "cat << Some-funny-eof-sequence >>"current".summary";}
END { print "Some-funny-eof-sequence"}
2. Use Larry Wall's perl.
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