On 2006-08-17, bsh wrote:
>
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> On 2006-08-17, bsh wrote:
>> > yuriy_zubarev wrote:
>> padding each line with spaces so that it's exactly 50 characters long.
>> > I'm surprised ... dd(1)
>> probably because it doesn't do what the OP asked for.
>
> I'm at the relative disadvantage of not being currently able to test
> my submission, but as I (re)read the OQ, this should do exactly
> what the OP asked for.
>
> So what do you think it does?

$ printf "%s\n" a b c d e f g > txt
$ dd if=txt bs=50 conv=block,noerror,sync | od -c
0+1 records in
1+0 records out
0000000 a \n b \n c \n d \n e \n f \n g \n \0 \0
0000020 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
*
0000060 \0 \0
0000062

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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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