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From: morreale@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Too much Text for sed?
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Date: 24 Aug 90 02:51:42 GMT
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Reply-To: morreale@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale)
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I am trying to solve a sed problem for a user.  The sed commands file 
contains 188 lines of various editing commands, and the source file 
contains 2.4k lines.  

When I apply the sed commands to the source, I get a:

Too much text:  [some sed command]

Is there an upper limit to the number of commands sed can handle?
I've read the BSD doc about sed (and several others as well), none imply
that there are limits of some kind...

From testing I've found that the failure occurs relative to the amount
of text in the sed commands file.  

(Details: UNICOS 5.1)

Any insight appreciated...

Thanks,
-PWM
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