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12-15-2008

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Breaking up of a fixe width line in unix

Hi,

I need some help with breaking up a given line based on 'fixed width' file.

Something like this:

After the breaking up, I need to have this output format...

First line should have the first 134 characters.
Starting from second line, I should have one line every 61 characters of the original line.

Please note that there is only ONE line in the inbound file.

so, lets say I have this line:

Code:

CICS           4                                                         7050                                                         1010     9D103670833                                         1010     9D7006406542

I should have this line broken up into this:

Code:

Line 1: CICS           4                                                         7050                                                         


Line 2: 1010     9D103670833                                         
Line 3: 1010     9D7006406542

I hope I am clear.

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fold

FOLD(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   FOLD(1)

NAME

     fold -- fold long lines for finite width output device

SYNOPSIS

     fold [-bs] [-w width] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The fold utility is a filter which folds the contents of the specified files, or the standard input if no files are specified, breaking the
     lines to have a maximum of 80 columns.

     The options are as follows:

     -b      Count width in bytes rather than column positions.

     -s      Fold line after the last blank character within the first width column positions (or bytes).

     -w width
	     Specify a line width to use instead of the default 80 columns.  The width value should be a multiple of 8 if tabs are present, or the
	     tabs should be expanded using expand(1) before using fold.

ENVIRONMENT

     The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of fold as described in environ(7).

SEE ALSO

     expand(1), fmt(1)

STANDARDS

     The fold utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

BUGS

     If underlining (see ul(1)) is present it may be messed up by folding.

BSD
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