Adding carriage returns to file using sed/awk

bd_joy · April 13, 2010, 10:26am

Hello,
I need help adding carriage returns at specific intervals (say 692 characters) to a text file that's one continous string. I'm working in AIX5.3. Any quick help is appreciated.

Thanks!

anbu23 · April 13, 2010, 11:11am

fold -w692 file > newfile

sed "s/\(.\{692\}\)/\1\\
> /g;s/.$//" file

bd_joy · April 13, 2010, 11:19am

They both work perfectly. Thank you so much!