MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

awk(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities awk(1)
Message: SYMTAB must have exactly one index
Cause: You tried to reference the SYMTAB array using more than one index.
Action: Always reference SYMTAB with exactly one index.
Message: syntax error "regular expression error"in/line/
Cause: See regerror(3).
Action: See regerror(3).
Message: too deeply nested for in loop (LIMIT: number)
Cause: For loops can only be nested number levels deep.
Action: Re-write the script to use fewer levels.
Message: Too many fields (LIMIT: number)
Cause: awk read a record with more fields than it was able to handle.
Action: Edit the input file to decrease the number of fields in the offending record.
Message: too many open streams to funcname onto "filename"
Cause: awk can only have a limited number of files open at one time. There were too
many open files.
Action: Make sure that unused files are being closed properly. If this doesn’t fix the
problem, restructure your program.
Message: unbalanced char
Cause: An unbalanced number of parentheses or braces was encountered.
Action: Make sure that all braces and parentheses are matched up.
Message: Unknown option "–option"
Cause: You specified an option that is not valid for awk.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION of this man page for a list of valid awk options.
Message: unredirected getline in END action
Cause: The default input stream has already been closed by the time that the END
action is performed so a getline which has not been redirected will fail.
Action: Redirect getline to read from a named file.
Message: variable "name" cannot be used as a function
Cause: You attempted to use the variable name as a function when it has not explicitly
been defined as one, or when it has not been defined at all.
Action: Replace the offending variable name with the name of a function or define a
function with that name.
Message: wrong number of arguments to function "funcname"
Cause: You attempted to invoke the function funcname with the wrong number of argu-
ments.
Action: Specify the correct number of arguments for funcname.
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