By definition, text files meet all of the following requirements:
the file does not contain any NUL characters,
every line in the file is terminated by a <newline> character, and
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:
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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Hi Friends,
Can any of you explain me about the below line of code?
mn_code=`env|grep "..mn"|awk -F"=" '{print $2}'`
Im not able to understand, what exactly it is doing :confused:
Any help would be useful for me.
Lokesha (4 Replies)
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121
1213412
34345353
long file
want to made each line as 20digit long append zero "0" in front
as 121
become
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Hi,
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3G_CENTRAL;INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL;SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL
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Okay, so I have a rather large text file and will have to process many more and this will save me hours of work.
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Working on Linux RHEL
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... (9 Replies)
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set -e
set -u
export IFS=
optl="Optl"
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO cut(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD