26-09-2007, Celejar: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:47:09 -0500 > Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I remember reading about a UNIX utility whose name >> escapes me. You feed it ASCII text and it breaks lines as near >> to a desired length as possible without splitting words. Anyone >> remember the name of this utility? >> >> Thanks. > > fmt -w nnn?
Yesterday, when i was (quickly) reviewing (very long) backlog of this ML, there was similar question, but person started subject with `sed`. Eventually the sed solution to the problem was not noticed, and this silly `fmt` was accepted. Just in case somebody is interested in sed scripting, i'd like to share with little one, which i used to format `pdftotext` output. I didn't come up with good distribution algo for justification, though. <ftp://flower.upol.cz/upload/sed-craziness> Main usage was to read defprogramming.pdf by Ulrich Drepper in my hackish non-X environment. But such docs, with silly 2 columns text, are coming out very broken. But some formatting for C in sed, is rather useful. Ah, "silly fmt?", you might say. Yes. It doesn't break line-long words. I do this like that: " barfoobarbarfoobarbarfoobarbarfoobar\ barfoobarbarfoobar" :P -- -o--=O`C #oo'L O <___=E M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
