In article <bob-A81B29.15162506022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Robert Peirce <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In sh and ksh, I have used
>
> for i in `cat file`
> do
> do-something-with-$i
> done
>
> on other systems with no problem. In OS X, this sometimes hangs, but
> sometimes it doesn't, which is very confusing. Pr also hangs, but for
> some strange reason, head works in the same script!
>
> Does anybody have any idea what I am doing wrong? This should always
> work fine, but sometimes it doesn't.
Okay. I have more info. There seems to be some sort of buffer
limitation in for. Perhaps somebody can tell me what it is. The file,
in the case that hangs, is 1,635,888 lines and 24,538,320 characters.
Other platforms seem to be able to handle this. OS X is hanging.
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Robert B. Peirce, Venetia, PA 724-941-6883
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