Re: Sed & Awk

2001-09-03 Thread Dan Souza
Thanks. The command which i was looking for was "fold" or "fmt"

Re: Sed & Awk

2001-09-03 Thread Dan Souza
Thanks. The command which i was looking for was "fold" or "fmt" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sed & Awk

2001-09-01 Thread Joost van Baal
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: > > > I want the text to be 'cut' every 300 or so characters, and then > > create a flat file from this, with line numbers. > > tr -s '[:space:]' ' ' ... and piping i

Re: Sed & Awk

2001-09-01 Thread Joost van Baal
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: > > > I want the text to be 'cut' every 300 or so characters, and then > > create a flat file from this, with line numbers. > > tr -s '[:space:]' ' ' ... and piping

Re: Sed & Awk

2001-08-31 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:27:19AM -0700, Dan Souza wrote: > Sorry, I dont know if this is the right group, but here goes anyway. debian-user@lists.debian.org would have been correct. > I have a text file containing a document (eg this posting) which is > formatted as such. I need to import this

Re: Sed & Awk

2001-08-31 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:27:19AM -0700, Dan Souza wrote: > Sorry, I dont know if this is the right group, but here goes anyway. [EMAIL PROTECTED] would have been correct. > I have a text file containing a document (eg this posting) which is > formatted as such. I need to import this into a da

Sed & Awk

2001-08-31 Thread Dan Souza
Sorry, I dont know if this is the right group, but here goes anyway. I have a text file containing a document (eg this posting) which is formatted as such. I need to import this into a database, and so I need to format the text to do this. I want the text to be 'cut' every 300 or so characters, a

Sed & Awk

2001-08-31 Thread Dan Souza
Sorry, I dont know if this is the right group, but here goes anyway. I have a text file containing a document (eg this posting) which is formatted as such. I need to import this into a database, and so I need to format the text to do this. I want the text to be 'cut' every 300 or so characters,