Re: [gentoo-user] how to word-wrap using a pipe?

Hi

...just a shot in the dark: Try 'fmt' (UNIX standard too so no extra
install I think).

Kind regards,
Meino Cramer



zhangweiwu@××××××.com <zhangweiwu@××××××.com> [08-10-20 03:52]:
> Hello. How can I line-wrap a text file that was not wrapped before (e.g.
> like text file created on Microsoft Windows's notepad, the software does
> softwrap by default, thus the file created using it often have very long
> text lines) by using command pipe?
>
> I could use vim, activate some formatting options and use gq. But that
> couldn't be used on a pipe.
>
> I could use groff, but that command line looks too complicated:
>
> $ head -n1 max_payne | groff -Tutf8 | grep --invert-match ^$
> Life was good. A house on the Jersey side across the  river.  The
> smell  of  freshly  cut  lawns. The sounds of children playing. A
> beautiful wife and a baby girl. The American dream come true. But
> dreams  have  a nasty habit of going bad when you’re not looking.
>
>
> Besides groff wraps not according to the console term width, but
> according to the paper size in /etc/paper. It would be nice to have
> something wrap my text by using console width (what you get with '$ stty
> -a | head -n1')
>
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