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macosterminaltext-manipulation
T.J.
T.J.

Reputation: 5

Shortening lines in a .txt file using terminal

I have a .txt file that has 98 lines. I need to shorten each of these lines so that I only have the first 14 characters in each line. How do I go about doing this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 542

Answers (2)

Seth Robertson
Seth Robertson

Reputation: 31471

colrm 15 < foo.txt

Looks good and might do what you want.

You will need to direct the output to another file, if you want to save the results.

Upvotes: 0

BryanH
BryanH

Reputation: 6062

If Linux:

cut -c -14 myfile.txt > mycutfile.txt

What this does is take the first 14 characters (-14 is a shortcut for 1-14) of each line of the original file and pipe them out to the new file.

Upvotes: 1

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