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Old 03-17-2008
ssunda6 ssunda6 is offline
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Increase the buffer size to read lengthy lines
Hi All,

I am trying to read output from a command. The output format is as follows:

Code:
Thursday 13 Mar 2008 Information 
This is sample text
Friday 14 Mar 2008 Warning
This is one more sample text
First line contains informtation (date etc) and the 2nd line contains some information.

The problem is sometimes the 2nd line's length is more and that is being read as two lines in Unix. But i want to read that as one line itself.

Can we increase the line buffer size in Unix?
I hope the question is clear.

Regards,
Ssunda.