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From: npl@cbnewsi.att.com (nickolas.landsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Splitting up a too-wide text file
Summary: yes, there is a split
Keywords: split
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.032648.21@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 03:26:48 GMT
References: <THOMSON.91Mar14072844@zazen.macc.wisc.edu> <1991Mar15.003416.16893@athena.mit.edu> <1991Mar15.012231.7048@convex.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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How about the following for those who don't have access to perl and such:
(pseudo Bourne sh, ksh script)

LENGTH=whateveryourlinelength
split -${LENGTH} <file>
for ii in x*  # assumes no other files in directory starting with "x"
do
	A="your_favorite_awk_or_sed_or_cut_or_other_script"
	${A} "args to get first 80 cols" ${ii}
	${A} "args to get next 80 cols" ${ii}
	# more if needed
done
rm -f x??

OK.... I know that it takes mucho disk space if the file is large, but,
honestly, where is there a whole in the above?

Nick Landsberg