fold — wrap each input line to fit in specified width
Examples (TL;DR)
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Wrap each line to default width (80 characters):
fold file -
Wrap each line to width "30":
fold -w30 file -
Wrap each line to width "5" and break the line at spaces (puts each space separated word in a new line, words with length > 5 are wrapped):
fold -w5 -s file
Synopsis
fold [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Description
Wrap input lines in each FILE, writing to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -b, --bytes
count bytes rather than columns
- -c, --characters
count characters rather than columns
- -s, --spaces
break at spaces
- -w, --width=WIDTH
use WIDTH columns instead of 80
- --help
display this help and exit
- --version
output version information and exit
Reporting Bugs
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Copyright
Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fold>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fold invocation'