I have let say x no of char in a string.
how to print them 5 by 5?
let say
$x = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
I wanted to print out like this and store it in a file
abcde
fghij
klmno
pqrst
uvwxy
z
any idea?
edited
somepart of my code
# data file
INPUT=encrypted2.txt
# while loop
while IFS= read -r -n1 char
do
# display one character at a time
echo "$char"
done < "$INPUT"
You can use the fold
command:
$ echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | fold -w 5
abcde
fghij
klmno
pqrst
uvwxy
z
The:
grep -Po '.{5}|.*' <<< "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
#or
grep -Po '.{1,5}' <<< "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" #@Cyrus
prints
abcde
fghij
klmno
pqrst
uvwxy
z
Or with your script
input=encrypted2.txt
while read -r -n5 ch
do
echo "$ch"
done < "$input" >output.txt
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