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Unless you mean "line size" -- which is usually thought of as the number of bytes per record in a text-formatted file -- if the filesystem can store the file, then utilities like awk and sed can read it.
I once ran into a 2 GiB limit with awk on a HP-UX machine. I think it depends on which c library it was compiled against. You can probably tell by looking for the 64 bit file IO functions in the binary:
Code:
strings $(which awk) |grep fopen
If you see fopen64, I think you should be OK up to files of stupidly large size. If you see regular fopen, probably you'll hit the limit at 2 GiB.
sed also counts line numbers, there could be an issue if there is more than 2^32 lines streamed in or read from a file. I don't know if the following works, to print the 2^32 line number?? Anyone have a file this big laying around?
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