fmt (1) Linux Manual Page
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
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Copyright
Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
See Also
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fmt>or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) fmt invocation’