Create a 80 column file

2007-12-25 10:28:00

> I received a bunch of replys with a bunch of different ways of doing this.

> Just like everything else in Unix, there's multiple right ways of getting

> it done.

> I ended up using a combination of the replys

> tr -ds "[\n]" "~" variable.input.file | fold -w 80 >

> fixed.output file

> Thanks to

> Sanjaya Srivastava [mailto:Sanjaya.Srivastava@Eng.Sun.COM]

> Jason Armbruster [mailto:jason.armbruster@cusys.edu]

> David Evans [mailto:daevans@us.oracle.com]

> Richard Lathom [mailto:fzyd6w@loa.lad.gmeds.com]

> -----Original Message-----

> One of my users wants to take a file of variable length records (between

> 10 and approx 250 columns) and create a new file of fixed 80 column

> records with a tilde(~) between the old records. This is required by the

> remote site they are going to ftp the file to. I figure there just has to

> be a a one-line sed/awk/something to do this. Any takers ?

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