Insert character after 510 characters

[alan147]

Good morning

A script that I have been provided with has created a 700M output file that is effectively 1 long line of text. Is there a way to insert a delimeter after 510 characters so that the file is a bit more user friendly?

Thanks

Alan

 

[feherke]

Hi

fold -w 510 /input/file > output/file

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sed 's/\(.\{510\}\)/\1\n/g' /input/file > output/file

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[alan147]

Thanks very much.

Alan