>>>>> "BM" == Bob Mariotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BM> Sometimes its better to ask a dumb question after spending a day BM> trying to figure it out oneself. Here goes: BM> When sorting a file with "sort" (unix sort) is there any way to BM> truncate the output to a maximum number of bytes per record???? BM> Example: sort -k 81.5,11.119 -z 80 -o fileout filein BM> This would read the input file of approx 81 bytes and write the BM> output file at only 80 bytes. sounds like piping it to cut is all you need. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org Damian Conway Perl Classes - January 2003 -- http://www.stemsystems.com/class _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
