[jomar]

Some current vendor versions of awk have astonishingly short line length limitations. See e.g. (especially the latter):

https://github.com/samtools/samtools/pull/1165 https://github.com/samtools/htscodecs/pull/22

which work around limitations in the default system awk on Solaris/OpenIndiana/whatever the remnants of SunOS are called these days…