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Old 09-10-2008
Parse a flat file

I need a unix script that will parse the flat file.

I have a file with only one line and if i do word count

wc TRSBFE.20080910.ascii
1 113347 4948601 TRSBFE.20080910.ascii

Now i want to give a line break at every 1033 character and create a new new file.

I try to use the "cut -c 1-1033 > filename". I do i loop through entire file.

Thanks for the help.
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Old 09-10-2008
The fold command does this.
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Old 09-10-2008
Thanks era "That was easy"
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