Re: bin/56743: Cannot create more than 1022 files from an AWK program

[Silas <silas_nbgt22%silas.net.br@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 06:30:02PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
>  The awk '>' operator works differently than a shell redirect. It opens
>  the file and keeps it open, more output to the same file will just
>  use the open descriptor. You need to use the close() statement to
>  close the descriptor.

Thanks for the answer! Indeed, it works with close(). For the record: GNU awk
seems to be able to create all 2000 files without having to call close(). Thanks
again.