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- From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
- Subject: Re: AWK file output question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan16.153236.8123@cs.sandia.gov>
- Keywords: awk
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- Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
- References: <1993Jan14.152332.16130@ericsson.se> <C0xuIF.xJ@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 15:32:36 GMT
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- >In article <1993Jan14.152332.16130@ericsson.se> etljskk@etlxd11c.etlxd writes:
- >>This is my first posting, so please don't complain if this is a faq.
- >>I am having a problem with awk. I want to split a large file into smaller
- >>ones (file name being created from data in the large file). I get
- >>this to work, but after ten files I get the error that no more files
- >>can be opened. How can I close these files when I no longer want them.
- >>
- >Ive *just* started writing shell scripts, does anyone have a list of man
- >references that are useful??? Or a list of useful commands maybe???
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- I'm not sure about your 'awk' problem, but you could use 'split'.
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- Jethro H. Greene
- Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory,
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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