How to print output with linebreakers from command line

Question

When I want to print an output like this

./myScript (prints some lines)

or

cat myFile

I want the output to show with linebreakers , for example each line will include not more than 100 chars.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaffffff
vbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbf
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

there is something I can add to the command line to get this result ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use sed if you want the line terminator as ,.

$ cat myfile
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaffffffvbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

$ sed -r 's/.{50}/&,\n/g' myfile
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaffffffvbbb,
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbfaaaaaa,
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

fold is another utility but won't add a , at the end

$ fold -w50 myfile
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaffffffvbbb
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbfaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa