Re: How to do this, fold + split
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:09:13 +0000 (UTC),
>> T o n g <mlist4suntong@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.
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