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Re: Dividing a large long lined file



John Haggerty writes:
> I have a file which is say about 700 characters wide and 2,000 characters
> long I wish to take this file and divide this into equal files
> horizontally AND vertically say about 65 characters long and 80 wide. I
> tried to look for an obvious way to do this but can only divide it into
> horizontal portions with split.

man cut (info for complete current docs).
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