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From: dmaustin@vivid.sun.com (Darren Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Stupid awk question
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Date: 10 Oct 89 21:59:18 GMT
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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
there a better way to do this with other tools?

Any help would be appreciated,
--Darren

P.S. This is on a Sun 3/60 SUNOS 4.0.3.
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