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Fold and fmt snippets

Fold

Section titled “Fold”
Terminal window
# View file and fold lines are 60 characters and on spaces
cat file.txt | fold -s -w 60
# -s - fold on spaces


# Fold file and output to file
fold -s -w 60 < file.txt > foldedfile.txt

Fmt

Section titled “Fmt”
Terminal window
# Reformat file
fmt file.txt


# Reformat output
cat file.txt | fmf


# Reformat file with uniform spaces (1 space between words, 2 between paragraphs)
fmt -u file.txt