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.
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)
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR¶
Written by Ross Paterson.
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report fmt bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <
http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report fmt translation bugs to <
http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later <
http://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¶
The full documentation for
fmt is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info and
fmt programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
- info coreutils 'fmt invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.