From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 5 7: 5: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DAC37B41F for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 07:05:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Y79Z-0003ev-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:05:01 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 7143313040 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:05:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id 36F0D22590; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:05:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:05:01 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk- make that sed- question Message-ID: <20020205150501.GB1881@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:36:54AM -0800, Joseph Stein wrote: > Apologies if this is not the appropriate forum for this, but... > > An interesting problem. > > I am massaging some "strangely" formatted text output using sed and awk. > The problem I am encountering is that some output lines are longer than > 256 characters. I originally thought I was running into a problem in awk, > but it turns out that the data lines are being truncated by sed. I find Sed does not truncate lines at 256... -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message