[ale] Split

Erik Mathis erik at mathists.com
Tue Mar 13 15:28:32 EDT 2012


Old school Macs (pre 10.0) are different from what I remember.

-Erik-

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 03:07 PM, Erik Mathis wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure its not one long line? your pager or editor might be
>> wrapping it. Also the line feeds in the file may windows or Mac line
>> feeds. some conversion will need to be done if that's the case.
>> dos2unix is one tool to do that for you.
>
>
> Pretty sure Mac and Linux have the same line feeds.
>
>
>>
>> -Erik-
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, gcs8<gcsviii at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> In a BSD system, I'm trying to split a text file every 12 lines, but
>>> every
>>> time I run split -l 12 text splittext, it just spits out the whole file
>>> again with a different name. Split, Y U NO WORK?
>>>
>>>
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