topic Re: line too long?? in Operating System - HP-UX

line too long??

yoon — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 00:56:03 GMT

Hi..all!!

I can't log file..
when I opened the log file by vi, I got the message..."XXX Line too long"
Is there any limitation...A line can have characters???

how can I open the the file?

Re: line too long??

Mark Grant — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 00:57:02 GMT

Use "tail" or "cat" or a text editor that deosn't have this limitation. Check the thread a couple below this one too :)

Re: line too long??

Hoefnix — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:11:39 GMT

Hi,

didn't know vi had a limitation on number of chars in a line. It sounds to me that its not a ascii file?
Or can it be that there are some binary strings in it.

Check with: file
If it returns ASCII then use more or tail like Mark suggested.

HTH,
Peter

Re: line too long??

T G Manikandan — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:20:51 GMT

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-6.2/

check for teh dependencies.

Re: line too long??

yoon — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:35:18 GMT

thanks for your all reply...rapidly^^

but I want to know how can I open the file...by VI!!
why I can't edit or capture specific part in the file..that file is acsii text log file..

How many chars does A line have?? (limit..^^) and How Can extend that limit..??

Re: line too long??

Mark Grant — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:37:59 GMT

There is no limit on line length in a file. Some applications have a limit though and "vi" is one of them. Check out "vim" as mentioned above. It is a "vi" clone with added features "vim=vi improved"

Re: line too long??

Elmar P. Kolkman — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:47:04 GMT

Or run fold on the file before opening it with vi.

Re: line too long??

T G Manikandan — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:48:39 GMT

2048 is the limit on a single line
If you are using 11.11 then you can use this patch PHCO_27057 to make it 4096

Re: line too long??

Ariadne_2 — Wed, 05 May 2004 08:40:04 GMT

Hi everybody --

I am trying to chop out the file part of a file by piping a head and tail command together. An example is:

head -213 test.txt | tail -42 > test2.txt

to grab lines 171-213 of a file.

The problem is, my command sometimes returns only partial lines (the last line is truncated).

Do you all suppose this is a similar limitation of head or tail? Why are my lines being truncated? Is there a workaround? I don't throw a "line too long" error, but this sounds like it might be the problem.

Thanks much!!

Re: line too long??

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Wed, 05 May 2004 08:42:38 GMT

You should have opened your own thread for new questions, but it's much easier:

# perl -ne'171..213 and print' test.txt

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: line too long??

Ariadne_2 — Wed, 05 May 2004 09:26:57 GMT

So sorry, I thought that since this might have been related that I should stick it here.

Thanks for the perl tip -- worked like a charm. Cheers!!