Also in the old days tools like sed and awk had more arbitrary limitations. E.g., line length was limited to something (reasonable) like 8192 bytes but input da

Also in the old days tools like sed and awk had more arbitrary limitations. E.g., line length was limited to something (reasonable) like 8192 bytes but input data I was processing was not reasonable. GNU sed does not have that limit: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Limitations.html https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Limitation...