FMT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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NAME
fmt - simple optimal text formatter
SYNOPSIS
fmt
[-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output.
The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of --width=DIGITS.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -c, --crown-margin
-
preserve indentation of first two lines
- -p, --prefix=STRING
-
reformat only lines beginning with STRING,
reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines
- -s, --split-only
-
split long lines, but do not refill
- -t, --tagged-paragraph
-
indentation of first line different from second
- -u, --uniform-spacing
-
one space between words, two after sentences
- -w, --width=WIDTH
-
maximum line width (default of 75 columns)
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR
Written by Ross Paterson.
REPORTING BUGS
Report fmt bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report fmt translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
fmt
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
fmt
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'fmt invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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