Splitting up a too-wide text file
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Fri Mar 15 10:34:16 AEST 1991
If you've got "cut", you can use that. RTFM cut.
If you've got "colrm", you can use that. RTFM colrm.
If you don't have "cut" or "colrm", then you can use "sed" to remove the
first part of each line, like
sed 's/^................................................//'
or to print the last part of each line, like
sed 's/^.*\(..............................................\)/\1/'
You get the idea, I hope.
You can use perl, although perhaps that's overkill in this case (or perhaps
perl is *always* overkill :-).
You can use "substr" inside awk to do it.
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