pablo hernandez wrote:
> Bob Stockler <bob@trebor.iglou.com> wrote in message news:<20050404151525.GD6745@trebor.iglou.com>...
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>>On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:20:46AM -0700, pablo hernandez wrote:
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>>| I want to "cat" one file , but shortening each line to maximum 70 characters .
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>>| I think this can be done with awk , but probably there is a easy way :
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>> awk '{print substr($0,1,70)}' infile >outfile
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>>Bob
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>
> Thanks Bob ,
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> so awk is the only way .
>

If you have some aversion to awk, you could use cut. "cut -c 1-70
filename > otherfile"

Or Perl, Python, C or any of a few dozen other tools.