четвер 20 грудень 2007 11:58 до, Erik Osterholm Ви написали: > Ah, I see. With very, very long lines, tail doesn't send the output > all at once. The cutoff seems to be 65536 bytes on my system.
They don't even have to be very very long -- unless in an artificial example, such as the one I posted. Normal-width text files can also trigger inconsistent behavior in some real-life scenario, where awk actually does some real processing of its input for a while. The awk script may decide to quit after processing the first 1000 (normal-length) lines, for example... The behavior of the program will then be different depending on whether the average line-length is above, at, or below 65.536 characters. Maybe, it is awk's fault -- it should not be read-ing more than one line at a time, because the script may cause it to ignore some of the read data. Using line-buffering or some such? -mi _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
