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Section: User Commands (1) Updated: September 2017 Index
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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/.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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
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split long lines, but do not refill
- -t, --tagged-paragraph
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indentation of first line different from second
- -u, --uniform-spacing
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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
AUTHOR
Written by Ross Paterson.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: < http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report fmt translation bugs to < http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: < http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fmt>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) fmt invocationaq
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