Detailed awk for pagebreak in text file


 
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Old 03-10-2020
Detailed awk for pagebreak in text file

Kindly provide detailed script (awk) programme for pagebreak to convert 500 lines text file into 60 lines each. I am a new learner in this platform. Pl guide
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Old 03-11-2020
Hi, @Subramaniam
Why exactly 'awk'? There are other formatting tools.
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