On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:51:02AM -0400, Parv wrote: > > As it is, any line longer than 159 characters will just overflow. > You need to use substr() not awk to shorten a line. Even after that > modification, that won't solve your actual problem as the awk script > will just shorten EACH line (when record separator is newline), not > the whole output. > > There are ports which seems to do what you want to do.
Ports? How about dd? Should be as simple as piping it thru "dd count=159" but then again I admit to having not paid full attention to this thread. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
