Hello wise monks, I am trying to do something very simple to humans that seems more complicated to computers :) I have a very long string of characters (for example say a 4000 character string) in a variable. I want to write this string to a file such that there are only 60 characters per line resulting in a 67 line file. Is there an easy way to do this? I tried using: 
printf "%.60s\n", $big_string

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but that obviously just truncates the string to 60 characters and drops the rest. I imagine I could use substring and increment the parameters by 60 but then I think I'd end up with a substring out of range error. So I'm stuck as to how I can accomplish this. Any help is appreciated.

In reply to How to divide single string across multiple lines? by Osiris1975

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