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.
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