Marcelo Ramos wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:40:42PM -0700, John Haggerty wrote:
>> I thought I would ask this question since it is about general unix and deb
>ian as well.
>> I have a file which is say about 700 characters wide and 2,000 characters
>long I wish to take this file and divide this into equal files horizonta
>lly AND vertically say about 65 characters long and 80 wide. I tried to
>look for an obvious way to do this but can only divide it into horizonta
>l portions with split.
To do it vertically, use cut -c:
FILE=/path/to/file
OUTDIR=/output/directory
MAXLENGTH=700
SLICE=1
WIDTH=65
START=1
while [ $START -le $MAXLENGTH ]
do
END=`expr $START + $WIDTH - 1`
outf=$OUTDIR/slice$START
cut -c$START-$END <$FILE >$outf
START=`expr $START + $WIDTH`
done
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