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I thought that fmt only separated text by columns not by characters or words?
by CodeHustler 11y ago
I thought that fmt only separated text by columns not by characters or words?
- pwg 11y agoYou are thinking of 'col'. 'fmt' reflows paragraphs: NAME fmt - simple optimal text formatter SYNOPSIS fmt [-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output. The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of --width=DIGITS. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --crown-margin preserve indentation of first two lines -p, --prefix=STRING reformat only lines beginning with STRING, reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines -s, --split-only split long lines, but do not refill -t, --tagged-paragraph indentation of first line different from second -u, --uniform-spacing one space between words, two after sentences -w, --width=WIDTH maximum line width (default of 75 columns) -g, --goal=WIDTH goal width (default of 93% of width) --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
- CodeHustler 11y agoOh ok. I still can't figure out how to achieve the same functionality with fmt though. Am I doing something wrong, or does `fmt` just not provide the same functionality as `reline`?