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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers finding string in very long file without newlines Post 302424569 by aaronpoley on Tuesday 25th of May 2010 06:14:45 PM
Old 05-25-2010
Got something to work
When I tried fmt as shown above, the output is the input. But, the following works, breaking up the lines in test-d at occurrences of "sd" (> is a command prompt):
sed '
> s/sd/\
> /g' test-d >> test-d2

test-d2 will contain the broken lines.

Thanks for all you help.

---------- Post updated at 05:14 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:37 PM ----------

Note to others with this problem: This solution seems to work in bash, not in tcsh, but maybe in other shells.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       The  lptest  utility  writes the traditional ripple test pattern to the standard output. In 96 lines, the ripple test pattern prints all 96
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