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Operating Systems Solaris Line too long error Replace string with new line line character Post 302522686 by ducati on Monday 16th of May 2011 10:16:03 AM
Old 05-16-2011
Line too long error Replace string with new line line character
I get a file which has all its content in a single row.
The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file.

I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing "<record>" with "\n<record>", so that the file has multiple rows without impacting the xml data in it.

I have tried sed, awk and perl commands but probably these commands aren't processing the file with too long line in it.
I cannot 'fold' the file as it breaks the file at a fixed width, disrupting the xml tags and xml data.

How can I edit this file.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

stag-flatten

STAG-FLATTEN(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  STAG-FLATTEN(1p)

NAME

       stag-flatten - turns stag data into a flat table

SYNOPSIS

	 stag-flatten -c name -c person/name dept MyFile.xml

DESCRIPTION

       reads in a file in a stag format, and 'flattens' it to a tab-delimited table format. given this data:

	 (company
	  (dept
	   (name "special-operations")
	   (person
	    (name "james-bond"))
	   (person
	    (name "fred"))))

       the above command will return a two column table

	 special-operations	 james-bond
	 special-operations	 fred

       If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the cartesian product will be calculated

USAGE

	 stag-flatten [-p PARSER] [-c COLS] [-c COLS] NODE <file>

ARGUMENTS

       -p|parser FORMAT
	   FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext

	   xml assumed as default

       -c|column COL1,COL2,COL3,..
	   the name of the columns/elements to write out

	   this can be specified either with multiple -c arguments, or with a comma-seperated (no spaces) list of column (terminal node) names
	   after a single -c

       -n|nest
	   if set, then the output will be a compress repeating values into the same row; each cell in the table will be enclosed by {}, and will
	   contain a comma-delimited set of values

SEE ALSO

       Data::Stag

perl v5.10.0							    2008-12-23							  STAG-FLATTEN(1p)
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