topic Re: awk line error in Operating System - HP-UX

awk line error

vandevoort — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:22:57 GMT

Hi I'am only the owner of this case not the the programmer : they encountered next error :
in HP-UX 11v31 Itanium ( hp-gcc-4.3.4 )
has someone have any Idea where to look at ??

(t/130)retrmsb@ahv005:lib/src$ make -f retek.mk depend 2>&1 | tee libdpnd.log
awk: Line JDBC_ALL_LRGS = srto cannot have more than 199 fields.
The input line number is 1084.
The source line number is 1.
Make: line 236: syntax error. Stop.
*** Error exit code 1

Stop.

Re: awk line error

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:28:52 GMT

Hi:

The 'awk' furnished by HP-UX has the limitation of 199 fields as you encountered.

One choice is to install GNU 'awk' from the Porting Center:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gawk-3.1.8/

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: awk line error

Dennis Handly — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:29:52 GMT

This is a limitation in awk. If the lines are also less then 3000 bytes, you could select a different field delimiter or split your own lines.
Or you need to use GNU awk, gawk, where there are no limits.

Re: awk line error

vandevoort — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:28:06 GMT

Thanks James and Dennis .
I downloaded the gawk.
This solved my awk(ward) situation :-) .

Re: awk line error

vandevoort — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:28:48 GMT

solved ..