awk script fails when selecting too many species

[adokter]

When selecting many species with the following command (Ubuntu 18.04, Sep 2019 EBD dataset):

ebd_file %>%
  auk_ebd() %>%
  auk_species(species) ->
  my_filter

The following command fails when selecting more than 107 species:

auk_filter(my_filter, "my_file.txt")

throwing an error:

Error in auk_filter.auk_ebd(my_filter, "my_file.txt",  : 
  Error running AWK command.

I presume you hit some maximum accepted command length in awk.

[mstrimas]

interesting, thanks for the heads up, if this is a limitation of AWK, I don't think there's much we can do, but I can at least document it and throw an informative error. will investigate further, thanks!