NAME
fmt - Reformat paragraphs from input files (or stdin) to stdout.
SYNOPSIS
fmt [-c|--crown-margin] [-t|--tagged-paragraph] [-m|--preserve-headers] [-s|--split-only] [-u|--uniform-spacing] [-p|--prefix] [-P|--skip-prefix] [-x|--exact-prefix] [-X|--exact-skip-prefix] [-w|--width] [-g|--goal] [-q|--quick] [-T|--tab-width] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [FILES]
DESCRIPTION
Reformat paragraphs from input files (or stdin) to stdout.
OPTIONS
- -c, --crown-margin
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First and second line of paragraph may have different indentations, in which case the first line's indentation is preserved, and each subsequent line's indentation matches the second line.
- -t, --tagged-paragraph
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Like -c, except that the first and second line of a paragraph *must* have different indentation or they are treated as separate paragraphs.
- -m, --preserve-headers
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Attempt to detect and preserve mail headers in the input. Be careful when combining this flag with -p.
- -s, --split-only
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Split lines only, do not reflow.
- -u, --uniform-spacing
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Insert exactly one space between words, and two between sentences. Sentence breaks in the input are detected as [?!.] followed by two spaces or a newline; other punctuation is not interpreted as a sentence break.
- -p, --prefix=PREFIX
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Reformat only lines beginning with PREFIX, reattaching PREFIX to reformatted lines. Unless -x is specified, leading whitespace will be ignored when matching PREFIX.
- -P, --skip-prefix=PSKIP
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Do not reformat lines beginning with PSKIP. Unless -X is specified, leading whitespace will be ignored when matching PSKIP
- -x, --exact-prefix
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PREFIX must match at the beginning of the line with no preceding whitespace.
- -X, --exact-skip-prefix
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PSKIP must match at the beginning of the line with no preceding whitespace.
- -w, --width=WIDTH
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Fill output lines up to a maximum of WIDTH columns, default 75. This can be specified as a negative number in the first argument.
- -g, --goal=GOAL
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Goal width, default of 93% of WIDTH. Must be less than or equal to WIDTH.
- -q, --quick
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Break lines more quickly at the expense of a potentially more ragged appearance.
- -T, --tab-width=TABWIDTH
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Treat tabs as TABWIDTH spaces for determining line length, default 8. Note that this is used only for calculating line lengths; tabs are preserved in the output.
- -h, --help
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Print help
- -V, --version
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Print version
- [FILES]
VERSION
v0.0.30