From: djanderson <douglasjanderson@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to word-wrap using a pipe?
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:38:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20062130.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>
> Hello. How can I line-wrap a text file that was not wrapped before (e.g.
> like text file created on Microsoft Windows's notepad, the software does
> softwrap by default, thus the file created using it often have very long
> text lines) by using command pipe?
>
I think you'll find what you're looking for in the 'fmt' standard unix
command. `man fmt', it's part of coreutils.
-Doug
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