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Is there a way for syncsort to stop after nn records are written to a sort out file when using an include/omit statement?


I want to sample some very large files and would like to stop after I get something like 10 examples.
I've looked at filesz and stopaft, but they don't seem to limit the way I would like

Have a look at STARTREC, ENDREC and SAMPLE in your documentation.

ENDREC will do what you want, but the others may be useful to you.

Thank you. That looks like an excellent solution for me.