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From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: awk questions: >10 output files; RS
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <1012@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 19:12:36 GMT
References: <255@aztec.osbusouth.xerox.COM>
Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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In article <255@aztec.osbusouth.xerox.COM> hamilton.osbuSouth@Xerox.COM
(Bruce Hamilton) writes:
>
>-how can I get more than ten output files?  [in awk]

Thought this was fixed in nawk.  Or am I wrong?  Anyway, the way to get
around this `feature' of awk is to have awk create a shell script with here
documents, than feed it to a shell.  If you feel ambitious you can have awk
pipe the data itself by putting | "sh" on the end of all the printing
commands, otherwise, just do it in the shell:

	awk -f script input | sh

What awk should be spitting out is something like

	cat << E_O_F >file001
		lines of
		data for
		file001
	E_O_F
	cat << E_O_F >file002
		lines of
		data for
		file002
	E_O_F
	...
	cat << E_O_F >filennn
		lines of
		data for
		filennn
	E_O_F

(Think that's the third time I've posted this in the last few years.  I
must be getting old...)
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
The Standard Answer Ltd., using Sphinx' facilities (for which much thanks)
domo@sphinx.co.uk