On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza > <kleberfortal...@gmx.com> wrote: >> On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible not to split on >>> the word but word boundaries? >>> >>> Thanks >> this shoud be what you want >> >> split -b <num_of_chars> <input_filename> > > I can't say I know the answer to the question, but I think he's > asking, "How can I split a file on the nearest whitespace every X > number of characters?" I don't think split -b does this (and I'm not > aware of any simple tool that can). I think this will require > development of a script to accomplish. Maybe some regex magic with > split -p can do it.
Ignore that split -b. I was looking at the wrong system's man page. That's a BSD option (in this case, the system was Mac OS X, i.e.; Darwin). -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caoevnysbja_rmu8-siiufwyfqjybl6l8hc_visgc6uzjv0z...@mail.gmail.com
