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Old 05-07-2008
Lines too long error
Hi Gurus,
I have a big file having around 5000 lines. What I need to do is as below.

$cat myfile
aaaa
bbbb
ccc
ddd
...

I want the output to be as below:

'aaaa,'bbbb','cccc'....

For this I have written something like this

code:
vi sac.txt |nawk '{printf NR","}'>ss
code:

But here the problem is when I try to open the file "ss", it says "Lines to long"

Please helpl me!!!!
# 2  
Old 05-07-2008
vi, ed and most command line utilities have a line length limit. Your file, ss, has a line that is too long to read.

1. make the lines shorter
2. use something else to edit the file
# 3  
Old 05-09-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by thana
Hi Gurus,
I have a big file having around 5000 lines. What I need to do is as below.

$cat myfile
aaaa
bbbb
ccc
ddd
...

I want the output to be as below:

'aaaa,'bbbb','cccc'....

For this I have written something like this

code:
vi sac.txt |nawk '{printf NR","}'>ss
code:

But here the problem is when I try to open the file "ss", it says "Lines to long"

Please helpl me!!!!
Maybe you can use the nedit program to open the "ss" file.
 
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