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Inserting a newline every x characters in a file.

Motoma
3,237 Expert 2GB
Hey guys,
I have a text file, and I need to insert a newline in it after every 900 characters.
Anyone got a nice one-liner for me to do this with?
Jul 10 '07 #1
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Motoma
3,237 Expert 2GB
Well, got my solution, perl to the rescue:

perl -p -e 's/(.{900})/$1\n/g' < oldfile > newfile
Jul 10 '07 #2

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