>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:09:13 +0000 (UTC), >> T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> said:
T> I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible not to split T> on the word but word boundaries? Yup, for certain meanings of "split". GNU fmt is part of "coreutils". Here's sample.txt (rulers added for readability): me% cat sample.txt ....*....1....*....2....*....3....*....4....*....5....*....6....*....7....* Here is what I normally do. Here is a skeleton script that creates a temporary file, redirects all output there, then if there is output it emails it off. There are many ways to do this and I tinker it as needed. me% gfmt -65 sample.txt ....*....1....*....2....*....3....*....4....*....5....*....6....*....7....* Here is what I normally do. Here is a skeleton script that creates a temporary file, redirects all output there, then if there is output it emails it off. There are many ways to do this and I tinker it as needed. me% gfmt -75 sample.txt ....*....1....*....2....*....3....*....4....*....5....*....6....*....7....* Here is what I normally do. Here is a skeleton script that creates a temporary file, redirects all output there, then if there is output it emails it off. There are many ways to do this and I tinker it as needed. If you want one word per line, which can be very handy: me% gfmt -1 sample.txt Here is what [...] as needed. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company A map with a bullet hole in it is still a map. A computer with a bullet hole in it is a paper-weight. --why soldiers tend to like paper -- 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/20120106201008.13767b...@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil
