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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:13:46AM +0800, zhangweiwu@××××××.com wrote: |
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> Hello. How can I line-wrap a text file that was not wrapped before (e.g. |
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> like text file created on Microsoft Windows's notepad, the software does |
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> softwrap by default, thus the file created using it often have very long |
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> text lines) by using command pipe? |
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> I could use vim, activate some formatting options and use gq. But that |
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> couldn't be used on a pipe. |
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> I could use groff, but that command line looks too complicated: |
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> $ head -n1 max_payne | groff -Tutf8 | grep --invert-match ^$ |
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> Life was good. A house on the Jersey side across the river. The |
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> smell of freshly cut lawns. The sounds of children playing. A |
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> beautiful wife and a baby girl. The American dream come true. But |
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> dreams have a nasty habit of going bad when you’re not looking. |
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> Besides groff wraps not according to the console term width, but |
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> according to the paper size in /etc/paper. It would be nice to have |
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> something wrap my text by using console width (what you get with '$ stty |
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> -a | head -n1') |
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$ man -k wrap | fgrep line |
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Text::Wrap (3pm) - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs |
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fold (1) - wrap each input line to fit in specified width |
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ggz-wrapper (6) - GGZ Gaming Zone command line core client |
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Hmm, 'fold' looks promising... |
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$ fold --help |
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Usage: fold [OPTION]... [FILE]... |
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Wrap input lines in each FILE (standard input by default), writing to |
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standard output. |
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Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. |
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-b, --bytes count bytes rather than columns |
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-s, --spaces break at spaces |
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-w, --width=WIDTH use WIDTH columns instead of 80 |
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--help display this help and exit |
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--version output version information and exit |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol |
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Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: |
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro |
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