[Boston.pm] OT Dumb Question?

[Bob Mariotti]

Sometimes its better to ask a dumb question after spending a day trying to figure it out oneself. Here goes:

When sorting a file with "sort" (unix sort) is there any way to truncate the output to a maximum number of bytes per record????

Example: sort -k 81.5,11.119 -z 80 -o fileout filein

This would read the input file of approx 81 bytes and write the output file at only 80 bytes.

Any thoughts on this off topic call for help?

Thanks.
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