From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> Subject: TIP: watching for disk overruns Date: 22 May 1998 13:32:45 GMT If you're writing a filter that writes to standard output, you might accidentally fill up the disk and not know it. One solution that doesn't require checking each print statement but still provides decent error messages and exit status is adding this to your program: END { close(STDOUT) || die "can't close stdout: $!" } --tom -- I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser. --Larry Wall in <6849@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>