[gentoo-user] A Word Wrap Script?

[gentoo-user] A Word Wrap Script?

[Daniel]

Hey is there a word wrap script out there that can, for example, take a plain 
text file with multiple lines > 1000characters long and word-wrap it to an 
arbitrary figure?  I'm looking for something like this:

  $ cat myTextFile | wrap 70

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Re: [gentoo-user] A Word Wrap Script?

[Ronald Vincent Vazquez]

Daniel:

# man fold

RV

On Wed, July 26, 2006 10:14 am, Daniel wrote:
> Hey is there a word wrap script out there that can, for example, take a
> plain
> text file with multiple lines > 1000characters long and word-wrap it to an
> arbitrary figure?  I'm looking for something like this:
>
>   $ cat myTextFile | wrap 70
>
> --
> In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated
> and
> scorned. when his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it
> costs nothing to be a patriot.
>   - Mark Twain
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] A Word Wrap Script?

[Daniel]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 11:03, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:14, Daniel wrote:
> > Hey is there a word wrap script out there that can, for example, take
> > a plain text file with multiple lines > 1000characters long and
> > word-wrap it to an arbitrary figure?  I'm looking for something like
> > this:
> >
> >   $ cat myTextFile | wrap 70
>
> man fold

EXACTLY what I was looking for!  Thanks1


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Re: [gentoo-user] A Word Wrap Script?

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:14, Daniel wrote:

> Hey is there a word wrap script out there that can, for example, take
> a plain text file with multiple lines > 1000characters long and
> word-wrap it to an arbitrary figure?  I'm looking for something like
> this:
>
>   $ cat myTextFile | wrap 70

man fold
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