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FMT
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
SEE ALSO
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 .
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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)
-g , --goal = WIDTH
goal width (default of 93% of width)
|
--help |
display this help and exit |
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Ross Paterson.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils
online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to
<https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
Full
documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fmt>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fmt
invocation'
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Debian (9.7-3)
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