File size limit exceeded in bash
- by yboren
I have tried this shell script on a SUSE 10 server, kernel 2.6.16.60, ext3 filesystem
the script has problem like this:
cat file | awk '{print $1" "$2" "$3}' | sort -n > result
the file's size is about 3.2G, and I get such error message:
File size limit exceeded
in this shell, ulimit -f is unlimited
after I change script into this
cat file | awk '{print $1" "$2" "$3}' >tmp
sort -n tmp > result
the problem is gone.
I don't know why, can anyone help me with an explanation?
