Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,

I am working in sun solaris.

while extracting a file from another environment and storing in unix.The extracted files have lines cut inbetween and the remaining lines comes in a new line.

Is there any command which would let me change this feature?i know there is a line limit in unix, but can i set the file so that it can be cut after a space and not in a word half way.

I am not sure which "line limit in unix" you are talking about .
There is no such limit *inside* the files . The only limit I am aware of is command line length in shell .

the error i am getting is certainly because, max length of lines is 74 characters and the remaining comes in a new line.


I am not sure if the error could be because of some other reason.

are you sure that you are talking about "real" new line inside the text ?
It seems you are talking about visual representation .
do :
tput cols
If the result is 74 or near it - we have visual representation problem here and you just need to change terminal size to 132x24 or whatever to see the rest of the line .

tput cols gives me 125.

also in the case of visual representation problem, would not a single line appear as more than 1 line? in my case i see 'end of line ($)' half way through and remaining in a new line.

the file i am extracting is a from a database (teradata) , i run the queries and store the result in unix. so a large line in teradata is split as multiple lines in unix . which i would like to avoid, or cut after a space, and not split in the middle of a word.

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Could i edit my file after is extracted so that i can move lines after certain length and merge with next line?

J will merge 2 lines .
Go to the end of line , press J and next line will be appended .
I am not sure you want to do it for large file manually .

I certainly do not want to do this manually the file is a big one.

i rectifed certain critical files using 'J' but i need a better method to handle this.