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I want to "cat" one file , but shortening each line to maximum 70 characters .

I think this can be done with awk , but probably there is a easy way :

any help ?

thanks

pablo

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 .
|
| I think this can be done with awk , but probably there is a easy way :

awk '{print substr($0,1,70)}' infile >outfile

Bob

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"Bob Stockler" <bob@trebor.iglou.com> wrote in message
news:20050404151525.GD6745@trebor.iglou.com...
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:20:46AM -0700, pablo hernandez wrote:
> |
> | I want to "cat" one file , but shortening each line to maximum 70
characters .
> |
> | I think this can be done with awk , but probably there is a easy way :
>
> awk '{print substr($0,1,70)}' infile >outfile
>
> Bob
When logged in I see an environment variable COLUMNS set to 80. What is
this used for?

Ron

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:38:57AM -0500, Ronald J Marchand wrote:
| "Bob Stockler" <bob@trebor.iglou.com> wrote in message
| news:20050404151525.GD6745@trebor.iglou.com...
| > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:20:46AM -0700, pablo hernandez wrote:
| > |
| > | I want to "cat" one file , but shortening each line to maximum 70
| characters .
| > |
| > | I think this can be done with awk , but probably there is a easy way :
| >
| > awk '{print substr($0,1,70)}' infile >outfile
| >
| > Bob
|
| When logged in I see an environment variable COLUMNS set to 80. What is
| this used for?

That tells programs (examples: less and mutt) how wide your window
is. Right now I'm typing this in a 123 column wide ScoTerm window,
using mutt to reply, so I have COLUMNS set to 123.

Bob

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

Thanks Bob ,

so awk is the only way .


regards

Pablo

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

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:17:07AM -0700, pablo hernandez wrote:
| Bob Stockler <bob@trebor.iglou.com> wrote in message news:<20050404151525.GD6745@trebor.iglou.com>...
| > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:20:46AM -0700, pablo hernandez wrote:
| > |
| > | I want to "cat" one file , but shortening each line to maximum 70 characters .
| > |
| > | I think this can be done with awk , but probably there is a easy way :
| >
| > awk '{print substr($0,1,70)}' infile >outfile
| >
| > Bob
|
| Thanks Bob ,
|
| so awk is the only way .

No, there are other ways. For instance:

cut -b 1-70 infile >outfile

You mentioned awk, so I gaqve you that command.

Bob

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pablo hernandez wrote:
>
> I want to "cat" one file , but shortening each line to maximum 70 characters .
>
> I think this can be done with awk , but probably there is a easy way :

cut -c1-70 file

or

cat file | cut -c1-70

>
> any help ?
>
> thanks
>
> pablo

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