| Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:03:35 +0000
| From: Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com>
|
| so i'm trying to figure a regular expression to do the following:
| Take a single (really long) line and break it up into 80 character
| lines. i.e. after every 80th character, insert a newline [ ... ]
as others have pointed out, fold(1) is yer answer.
but anyway, here's the ERE you wanted (GNU sed(1)):
sed -e 's/.\{80\}/&\n/g'
add pepper to taste for vim(1) &tc.
cheers!
-blf-
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