[PLUG] some awk-fu or perl to word wrap a text file?

Don J. auderive at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 06:18:16 UTC 2007


Perfect! fmt is exactly what I was hoping for, and Text::Wrap will
come in handy someday too.

Thanks,

Don

On 10/16/07, Michael Rasmussen <mikeraz at patch.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> Not Perl, not a reinvented wheel.
>
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