[LCP]Awk query ?

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:53:53AM -0800, Santosh.Kawade at eyield.com wrote:
> Is there any upper limit for files beyond which awk/sed (text processing
> tools) cannot work ?

The original AT&T UNIX utilities had some arbitrary limits, but the GNU
variants are usually only limited by the amount of memory available to
the process or the maximum filesize supported by the OS. For more
information: read the source.

> if so why ?

Because you still can't buy memory modules and hard disks with
inifinite storage capacity?


Erik

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