Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Larry, > >> Groff was barfing with a "too many open files" error, which I worked around >> by doing "ulimit -n 768" first. I ended up with over 640 HTML files. I'm not >> sure why all every output file has to be open at once, though. > > > $ > > What status close() returns depends on your awk. And closing a pipe > should wait for the command to finish so if you've a grep that produces > 1E6 lines and you just want to read the first then pipe it into `sed 1q' > before reading it into awk so the grep gets a SIGPIPE on writing to the > finished sed, curtailing its largess. > > Cheers, > > > Ralph.
To access head or tail of a ascii file the 'head' and 'tail' commands are what you are looking at (prevents reading the whole file just to get the result). re, wh _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
