[PLUG] some awk-fu or perl to word wrap a text file?
Michael Rasmussen
mikeraz at patch.com
Wed Oct 17 06:02:16 UTC 2007
Don J. wrote:
> My perl skills are still in the very preliminary stages ... might
> anyone know how I could take a large text file that has no hard
> wrapping, and apply hard wraps every 80 characters or so?
> Any ideas?
fmt -w 80 large_file > new_file
see `man fmt` for details
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