MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

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Messages
Message: bad number format "fmt"
Cause: You specified an unrecognized number format with the –n option.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid number formats that you
can use with the –n option.
Message: bad type specifier "type"
Cause: You specified an unrecognized type specifier with the –b, –h,or–f option.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid type specifiers.
Message: Badly formed number in "string"
Cause: You specified the –i, –l, –v,or–w option but the argument following it was
not a valid number.
Action: When using these options, provide a valid number as an argument.
Message: file "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: must have 1 or 2 delimiters after -d
Cause: You specified the –d option, and either provided no arguments or more than
two arguments.
Action: When using the –d option, specify exactly 1 or 2 arguments to act as delimiters.
Message: must specify separator after -s
Cause: You specified the –s option, but did not provide a string to act as the separator
between the line number and the line.
Action: Provide the missing separator.
Message: nothing allowed after -p option
Cause: You specified an argument with the –p option which does not take one.
Action: Remove the argument following the –p option.
Message: Only one file name allowed
Cause: You specified more than one file name on the command line.
Action: Use cat to combine the files into one larger file and then run nl on the new
file.
Message: regular expression error in "-bpregexp"
Cause: An error occurred while processing the regular expression regexp which was
specified as an argument to the –b, –f,or–h option.
Action: Check the syntax of the regular expression.
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