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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Breaking long lines into (characters, newline, space) groups Post 302316398 by ghostdog74 on Friday 15th of May 2009 01:08:19 AM
Old 05-15-2009
if you have Python, here's an alternative solution
Code:
import textwrap
t=textwrap.TextWrapper(subsequent_indent=" ",width=78)
for line in open("file"):
    for i in t.wrap(line):
        print i

output
Code:
# more file
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

# ./test.py
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678
 90123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
 67890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
 34567890

 

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ldbadd

LDBADD(1)							  [FIXME: manual]							 LDBADD(1)

NAME

       ldbadd - Command-line utility for adding records to an LDB

SYNOPSIS

       ldbadd [-h] [-H LDB-URL] [ldif-file1] [ldif-file2] [...]

DESCRIPTION

       ldbadd adds records to an ldb(3) database. It reads the ldif(5) files specified on the command line and adds the records from these files
       to the LDB database, which is specified by the -H option or the LDB_URL environment variable.

       If - is specified as a ldb file, the ldif input is read from standard input.

OPTIONS

       -h
	   Show list of available options.

       -H <ldb-url>
	   LDB URL to connect to. See ldb(3) for details.

ENVIRONMENT

       LDB_URL
	   LDB URL to connect to (can be overrided by using the -H command-line option.)

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       ldb(3), ldbmodify, ldbdel, ldif(5)

AUTHOR

       ldb was written by Andrew Tridgell[1].

       If you wish to report a problem or make a suggestion then please see the http://ldb.samba.org/ web site for current contact and maintainer
       information.

       This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

NOTES

	1. Andrew Tridgell
	   http://samba.org/~tridge/

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