Stupid awk question

[H.Bernau]

In article <DMAUSTIN.89Oct10145918 at vivid.sun.com> dmaustin at vivid.sun.com (Darren Austin) writes:
>       I am trying to split up a large output file into several
>smaller files.  The smaller files are named after the value in
>the second field.  I tried using the following simple awk script,
>[...deleted...]
>but it fails with
>awk: too many output files 10
>Any help would be appreciated,
>--Darren

Hi.
I've had the same problem some days ago :-(
My solution was to make the awk script produce /bin/sh commands:

BEGIN { first = 1 }
(current == $2) { print }
(current != $2) { if( !first) { print "_THIS_IS_EOF_"; first = 0 }
                  current = $2;
                  printf "cat << _THIS_IS_EOF_ > %s.summary\n", $2
                }
END { print "_THIS_IS_EOF_" }

Hope that'll help.
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