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While running the script called abc.sh, following errors are thrown. 

 abc.sh: line 226: storage allocator out of space on 64946176 byte request ( region 64329285632 segments 1981 busy 202:65087584:64913312 free 1983:64264004608:64880544 ) [Cannot allocate memory]

Line number 226 has the following

  226  sed 's/||/|/g' sales.txt >>sales.1.txt
  227  var_check=`awk -F '|' 'NF!=22{print $0}' sales.1.txt`

Please let me know what might be the issue.

PS: This is not a script generated error message and not UNIX disk space issue as the environment has 40% free space left.

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we are not aware of any abc.sh, can you show us at least line 226 ? or give more context about what you are trying to do ? –  Archemar Jul 24 at 7:36
    
edited the question, Please check –  VRVigneshwara Jul 24 at 7:39
    
can the error be reproduce using the sed command ? or the var affectation below ? how big are sales.txt (though I don't think this is the issue). –  Archemar Jul 24 at 7:53
    
it is a 74 MB file. I have no idea what is var affectation ? can you please elaborate on that. –  VRVigneshwara Jul 24 at 8:08
    
According to Google 64946176 bytes = 65mb Could you also provide the output of cat /proc/meminfo? –  eyoung100 Jul 24 at 21:50

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It is because I was using a huge file in awk command which couldn't support huge data. I split it up in to two so that size was reduced and issue was solved.

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