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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A question on awk and sort.
Message-ID: <13014@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 29 May 90 14:17:16 GMT
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References: <1990May28.225953.222@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1990May28.225953.222@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> aj3u@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (Asim Jalis) writes:
-I need to use awk and sort on files with records that are longer than
-the maximum length the two utilities allow.  I have looked at the man
-pages and found nothing.  Is there a command line option through which
-I could alter the maximum record lengths?

I can't help you with "awk", but as of SVR2 "sort" no longer has a record
length limit, so if you have access to that (perhaps as /usr/5bin/sort),
use it.