On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:09:59PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
CentOS-6.2
I am investigating how to split long lines present in a Mailman generated html archives. Mailman places the email bodies within <pre></pre> tags and some users have MUAs that send entire paragraphs as one long line.
I have looked at fmt and fold but these assume a pipeline from stdout to a fixed filename, which presumably is best
fold reads stdin and writes stdout. I have a script I use all the time that depends on that, so I know it works that way.
here's an excerpt from "man fold" on my system:
FOLD(1) User Commands FOLD(1)
NAME fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
SYNOPSIS fold [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION Wrap input lines in each FILE (standard input by default), writing to standard output.