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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search and recursively enter new line after Nth character Post 302888743 by Amit786 on Monday 17th of February 2014 06:30:56 AM
Old 02-17-2014
Hi Klash..

Above code is giving me error as "sed: Function s_\(.\{320\}\)_\1\n_g cannot be parsed."
 

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