Page Break in a file for printing

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

We have 1lac records in source file and unix script will genarate around 1000 files.
From target location the files are taking for printing on physical papers.

the page size limitation : 256 Lines

Can you please tell me how to insert the page break in a flat file for printer.

2

How man lines in the file?
You could look at the split command

3

Dont pay too much attention to my previous post - I just got to work... was stuck half an hour in a motorway tunnel on my motorcycle, my head and brains "fumed would you say?" need fresh air...
Just so you see how crazy I went on the idea: splitting the files into multiple then appending them again while adding a blanc page between...

4

Something puzzles me: files unless coded in have no pages, just record lines...
Isn't you printer going to print 256 lines/page?

5

If you split on your required page length, then you can concatanate them back together with a <CNTL>L character. That usually causes a page throw.

Robin

6

Hi.

I'd consider using pr:

NAME
       pr - convert text files for printing

      -F, -f, --form-feed
              use form feeds instead of newlines to separate pages (by a
              3-line page header with -F or a 5-line header and trailer
              without -F)

       -l PAGE_LENGTH, --length=PAGE_LENGTH
              set the page length to PAGE_LENGTH (66) lines (default number of
              lines of text 56, and with -F 63)

-- excerpt from man pr, q.v.

And has many, many other options ... cheers, drl