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Insert line breaks in ASCII file

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Hi, I've a UNIX ASCII file with one long string line. I need to break this long line into multiple lines so that each line has 94 characters. Thanks for your help in advance. Alok

Name: Jimbo
Date: July 16, 2003 at 00:09:12 Pacific

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if the 'fold' command is on your system, try: fold -w 94 your_file -jim

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Name: David Perry
Date: July 16, 2003 at 06:51:08 Pacific

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I did the following when I needed to wrap something to 70 characters / line. awk '{ll=int(length($0)/70) ; i=1 ; \ if (length($0)>72) { \ { print substr($0,0,70) } \ while (i<=ll) { { print " " substr($0,i*70+1,70) } i=i+1} \ } else { \ { print ($0) } } }'

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fold command worked great. fold -w 94 myfile > newfile Thanks Jim and all who responded. Regards, Alok

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