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fold

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v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0
fold [OPTION]... [FICHIER]...

Écrit chaque fichier (ou l’entrée standard si aucun fichier n’est donné) sur la sortie standard en coupant les lignes trop longues

Options

--bytes, -b

fold-bytes-help

--characters, -c

fold-characters-help

--spaces, -s

fold-spaces-help

--width=<WIDTH>, -w <WIDTH>

fold-width-help

Examples

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Wrap each line to default width (80 characters):

fold {{path/to/file}}

Wrap each line to width “30”:

fold -w30 {{path/to/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 {{path/to/file}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.