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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Formatting large Ascii file Post 302251042 by jim mcnamara on Friday 24th of October 2008 10:16:08 PM
Old 10-24-2008
You will have to write a dd command or maybe C or perl, something like that. Most Unix tools have a limit to line size.


How is the format supposed to be? We need examples of input and expected output.
 

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