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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Splitting up a too-wide text file
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Date: 15 Mar 91 00:34:16 GMT
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  If you've got "cut", you can use that.  RTFM cut.

  If you've got "colrm", you can use that.  RTFM colrm.

  If you don't have "cut" or "colrm", then you can use "sed" to remove the
first part of each line, like

    sed 's/^................................................//'

or to print the last part of each line, like

    sed 's/^.*\(..............................................\)/\1/'

You get the idea, I hope.

  You can use perl, although perhaps that's overkill in this case (or perhaps
perl is *always* overkill :-).

  You can use "substr" inside awk to do it.

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