MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2
sed(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities sed(1)
Message: End of file in "cmd" command
Cause: sed encountered an end of file while parsing the command cmd.
Action: Check the script file for missing closing quotes, missing regular expression del-
imiters, and other syntactical errors.
Message: garbage after command
Cause: You specified invalid characters after a script command.
Action: Remove the surplus commands.
Message: hold space overflow during H command
Cause: The contents of the pattern buffer was too long to be appended to the hold buf-
fer.
Action: Place a smaller amount of text in the pattern buffer.
Message: in "y/set1/set2/", the strings "set1" and "set2" must be
the same length
Cause: You specified two strings set1 and set2 as arguments to the y command that
were not the same length.
Action: Make sure that the set1 and set2 strings are the same length.
Message: input file "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: input file "filename" is binary
Cause: You specified the binary file filename as a sed input file. sed only works on
text files.
Action: Only specify text files as sed input files.
Message: input line too long
Cause: A line in the input file was longer than 10240 bytes.
Action: Make sure that the input file is a text file.
Message: insufficient memory for buffers
Cause: There were not enough free system resources for sed to allocate to its buffers.
Action: Free up more resources.
Message: insufficient memory to compile command
Cause: There were not enough free system resources for sed to compile a given com-
mand.
Action: Free up more resources.
Message: label "label" not found in script
Cause: You specified label as an argument to the b or t command, but label does not
exist in the script.
Action: Make sure that b and t commands refer to labels that exist in the script.
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