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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Breaking large file into pieces
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.153834.27866@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 13 Sep 90 15:38:34 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.134238.20218@dg-rtp.dg.com> <9466@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
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In article <9466@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In article <1990Sep11.134238.20218@dg-rtp.dg.com> monroe@dg-rtp.dg.com (Mark A Monroe) writes:
>: I want to rip a large file into pieces, naming new files according
>: to an ID string in the large file.  For example, the large file contains
>: records that look like this:
>: 
>: Any suggestions?  
>
>In standard shell+awk+sed it's a bit hard because you run out of file
>descriptors.
In nawk you can close the old file before you open the new.
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