On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:51:45AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:27:19AM -0700, Dan Souza wrote:
> 
<snip>
> > I want the text to be 'cut' every 300 or so characters, and then
> > create a flat file from this, with line numbers.
<snip>
> 
> tr -s '[:space:]' ' ' <file | fold -w 300
> 

... and piping it though  ' | cat -n  ' gives you the linenumbers.

Bye,

Joost

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