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Neato Unix Command (Friday, April 27, 2007)

fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width

Great for when your text editor is being stupid.

This was written by James Bowes. Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007, at 8:25 am. Filed under neato unix command, tech. Tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Ian wrote:

    I’m not sure what text editor you’re using, but if it’s Vim, I presume you’re already aware of gq, gqap etc? They wrap lines, wrap all lines in a paragraph, and so on.

    Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 11:04 am | Permalink
  2. James Bowes wrote:

    It was gedit. I was printing a text file, and the output did not wrap on the printout. So I figured I’d see if there was a command to do the wrapping for me.

    Vim is perfect, of course, and could never be stupid.

    Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 9:19 am | Permalink