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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers VI command "line too long" Post 302977241 by Don Cragun on Friday 15th of July 2016 03:22:36 AM
Old 07-15-2016
By definition, text files meet all of the following requirements:
  1. the file does not contain any NUL characters,
  2. every line in the file is terminated by a <newline> character, and
  3. no line in the file (including the terminating <newline> character) contains more than LINE_MAX bytes.
On many systems, LINE_MAX is 2048. The value on your system can be determined using the command:
Code:
getconf LINE_MAX

The message you are getting probably indicates that the file you are trying to edit is not a text file because it violates requirement #3 in the list above.

If you want to split long lines in a file into shorter, adjacent lines that meet the requirements of a text file, try using the fold utility. If you want to split long lines into segmented files where one file contains the 1st X characters from each line from an input file and another file contains the X+1st through the 2Xth character from each line from an input file, etc.; try using the cut utility.

Without knowing more about the format and contents of the file you are trying to edit and the changes you want to make to that file, it is hard to suggest anything more specific.
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

kitpost

KITSEND(1)                                                    General Commands Manual                                                   KITSEND(1)

NAME

       kitpost - posts distribution kits

SYNOPSIS

       kitpost [ -hrV ] [ -H file ] [ -D desc ] [ -m dest1,dest2 ] [ kits ] [ newsgroups ]

DESCRIPTION

       Kitpost  posts  distribution kits made by makedist to some (source) newsgroups specified on the command line. If you do not specify any kit
       list, then all the kits are sent. Otherwise, only the specified kits will be (re)sent.

       A kit list may include ranges, 1-10 specifying kits 1 through 10, and 5- meaning kits 5 up to the last one. You may also specify  kit  num-
       bers by separating them with commas or spaces, and even mix with ranges, such as: 1 3 5-7 9.

       Kitpost ensures correct References: lines are inserted in your postings so that all parts but the first point to the root article. Threaded
       newsreaders and end-users traditionally appreciate that.

OPTIONS

       The following options are recognized by kitpost:

       -h        Print help message and exit.

       -m dest1,destn
                 Sends kits by e-mail to the specified recipients. This option may be used in conjunction with newsgroup  posting.  It  is  mainly
                 intended  for  sites  where  direct  posting to a moderated newsgroup is not allowed by inews. You may thus send your kits to the
                 newsgroup moderator in a form that will ease the whole posting process.

       -r        Signals a repost.

       -D description
                 Specify a description string that will be added to the subject line. Usually a brief sentence (less than, say, 40 characters).

       -H file   Specify a file to be used as header introduction in the first part of your posting. Usually the root README file.

       -V        Print version number and exit.

BUGS

       Article cross-referencing is properly set-up only when the whole package is (re)posted in one batch.

       It is not currently possible to set-up the article headers manually or better, interactively.

AUTHOR

       Raphael Manfredi <ram@hptnos02.grenoble.hp.com>

SEE ALSO

       makedist(1), kitsend(1).

                                                                        ram                                                             KITSEND(1)
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