According to your output it's every 78th character thereafter?
So I tried:
Quote:
Originally Posted by gusbrown
Code:
sed 's/./&\\\r\n/60 s/./&\\\r\n/76' input
but get a syntax error for char 16 being an unknown option to 's'.
If you carefully look at Don's sed command, you'll notice that the two "s" statements are delimited by a semicolon.
Quote:
Originally Posted by gusbrown
Code:
sed 's/./&\\\r\n/60' input
Shouldn't latter throw the same error?
No, because it's only a single "s" statement.
Try this work-around (you see it's obviously 60+78+78, thus using this approach you might need to add some more "s" statements if the lines are longer than the sample lines you posted in this thread):
Code:
sed 's/./&\\\r\n/60; s/./&\\\r\n/138; s/./&\\\r\n/216' input
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I retract my words regarding 78 characters, however 78 were needed to produce the required output
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