FOLD

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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NAME

fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width  

SYNOPSIS

fold [,OPTION/]... [,FILE/]...  

DESCRIPTION

Wrap input lines in each FILE, writing to standard output.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-b, --bytes

count bytes rather than columns

-s, --spaces

break at spaces

-w, --width=,WIDTH/

use WIDTH columns instead of 80

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

 

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.  

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report fold 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/fold>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) fold invocationaq

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