How to divide results into several pages?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

I am wondering if anyone can help me with this. I have a long list of results and I want to divide them into several pages. Any ideas of how to do this? I'm using perl languange.

eg:

Output file consist of 400 data then would like to divide it into 50 data per pages.

any help on how to get this to work.

Thanks for any help

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If you are trying to insert a pagebreak every 50 lines, that's not too hard to do in perl:

$maxlines=50;
$linenum=0;
while (<STDIN>) {
  $linenum++;
  if ($linenum > $maxlines) {
    $linenum=0;
    print "^L";
  }
  print "$_";
}

(Untested)
You'll need to put an actual page break in there where it has ^L (ie don't copy-paste the ^ and the L characters, use a single control-L character).

Should do the job.

You can also do it using perl's rather nice 'format' option Perl format Primer (1/2)

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control-L character is

ctrl+vl

without any pressing any shift key