topic Re: awk with over 3000 bytes in Operating System - HP-UX

awk with over 3000 bytes

Marcus Casserfelt — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 02:27:07 GMT

Is there any way of using the command awk on lines bigger than 3000 bytes and
that has more than 199 fields?

I know this is possible on other distributions (like Linux) but I can't get it
to work with HP-UX.

We are using HP-UX 10.20 on 9000 servers.

Thanks in advance
Marcus Casserfelt

Re: awk with over 3000 bytes

Melvyn Burnard_1 — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 03:09:41 GMT

Currently there does not appear to be an awk on HP-UX that will allow over the
199 fields, or 3k bytes.

I believe the HP implementation has the following limits:
Number of fields per record 199
Characters per input record 3k
Characters per output record 3k
Characters per field 400

HTH

Re: awk with over 3000 bytes

Juha Laiho — Mon, 27 Dec 1999 00:55:48 GMT

For jobs that exceed the limits of HP awk you might
wish to use gawk (which is the same as the awk in Linux).

gawk binaries for HP-UX are available in the "HP-UX Porting and Archive Center"
- see the link.