If you mean make all line at a specific lenght?? You may compile this little program I used for when I had the problem, Just edit the line her for lenght, now it is for 131 cp. for(i = lg; i < 131 ; i++) putchar(' ') ; Best wish from Tage in Denmark. ###################################################################### /* Program ...: linielg. Design ....: Tage Dato ......: 09.1.91 Beskrivelse: Kopiering af standard-input til standard-output. - fra fil til fil (linielg <fil >fff) Afbrydes med 'ctrl-Z' */ #include main() { int c, lg=1, i; /* printf("Kopiering af standard-input til standard-output\n"); */ while((c = getchar()) != EOF){ if(c == '\n' ){ for(i = lg; i < 131 ; i++) putchar(' ') ; lg = 0 ; putchar(c) ; } else putchar(c) ; lg++ ; } return(0); } **************************************************************************** ** -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Rod C. Johnson [mailto:RODJOHN@HLK.FORTHNET.GR] Sendt: 12. oktober 2001 17:30 Til: SuSE mailing list Emne: [SLE] OT: How to use grep/sed/?? to find end of lines Hi, I have a text file about 20 characters wide (sometimes a lot more sometimes a lot less) and I want to change the line to about 70 characters. Any hints would be appreciated, as the man pages for sed/grep are rather terse. Thanks in advance Rod -- 100% Linux Only genuine Linux tools were used in the generation and posting of this email. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com