[TriLUG] word wrap tool

[Nathan Conrad]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote:
> I dumped a Word document to txt in StarOffice.  There's no word wrapping that 
> I can find.  
> 
> A. Can someone point out the word wrap feature in SO 5.1?
> B. Can someone recommend a tool (wrap-1.0.0 at ibiblo is a brute force 
> wrapper; it does not know about breaking at whitespace or hyphenating)

The standard UNIX utility `fold' will wrap text documents for you. It
does not know about hyphenating, but can be configured to only wrap at
whitespace. Use it like so:

fold -s < unwrapped.txt > wrapped.txt

The -s makes it wrap at spaces.

-Nathan

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