ubuntu awk issue?

[Steve Flynn]

On 28 December 2011 20:56, Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com> wrote:
> friends,
>
> when i am trying to use awk against a file with very long records (about 230
> fields separated by comma) - the first record is either messed up or is
> completely printed. after that records print fine. sometimes though very
> rarely this issue happens with records in between too. I tried mawk and nawk
> also but same issue.
>
> can anyone advice what could be the issue?

Can you show us some code, some example data and an example of a
"messed up" record?

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Steve

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