FOLD
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -b, --bytes
-
count bytes rather than columns
- -c, --characters
-
count characters rather than columns
- -s, --spaces
-
break at spaces
- -w, --width=WIDTH
-
use WIDTH columns instead of 80
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report fold 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/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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
fold
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
fold
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqfold invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.