[PLUG] some awk-fu or perl to word wrap a text file?
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Oct 17 14:02:05 UTC 2007
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Michael Rasmussen 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.
The added bonus is that fmt works great within vi(m). For instance,
to wrap a really long line of text, get the cursor to the beginning of
the line and (in command mode) type
:.!fmt
Or if you've got a paragraph with a really ragged right side, position
the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph and (in command mode)
type
!}fmt
--
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