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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers VI command "line too long" Post 302977467 by Don Cragun on Monday 18th of July 2016 10:06:18 PM
Old 07-18-2016
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Originally Posted by James C
Hello, I had posted this initially in the UNIX for dummies forum which is now locked to new posts. I have a machine running IRIX and I need to edit a text file on the terminal but I get a "line too long" error when using the vi command. The text file in question is tens of thousands in lines so I'm not sure if that is related to it. User bakunin suggested the sed command but I get similar results. Can someone show me step by step on a possible workaround with this since I'm a bit rusty on this stuff? Thanks in advance!

James
You say above that you have a text file; but we have showed you the definition of a text file and your .dat file(s) do NOT meet the definition of a text file. You say above that your text file has thousands of lines, but in post #3 in this thread you say that there are no <newline> characters. So by definition, your .dat file doesn't contain any lines.

Why do you say that you have thousands of lines in a file if there are no <newline> characters and you know that every line in a file is terminated by a <newline> character?

We can't help you if you don't explain the format of the data in your .dat file(s) and explain what change(s) you hope to make to your .dat file(s)
 

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set_color

set_color(1)                                                           fish                                                           set_color(1)

NAME

       set_color - set_color - set the terminal color

set_color - set the terminal color
   Synopsis
       set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR]

   Description
       Change the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. COLOR is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple,
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       o -b, --background Set the background color

       o -c, --print-colors Prints a list of all valid color names

       o -h, --help Display help message and exit

       o -o, --bold Set bold or extra bright mode

       o -u, --underline Set underlined mode

       o -v, --version Display version and exit

       Calling set_color normal will set the terminal color to whatever is the default color of the terminal.

       Some terminals use the --bold escape sequence to switch to a brighter color set. On such terminals, set_color white will result in a grey
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       Not all terminal emulators support all these features. This is not a bug in set_color but a missing feature in the terminal emulator.

       set_color uses the terminfo database to look up how to change terminal colors on whatever terminal is in use. Some systems have old and
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Version 1.23.1                                                    Sun Jan 8 2012                                                      set_color(1)
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