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fish@daacdev1.stx.com (John Vanderpool) writes:
| the irix version of the "fold" command breaks words in the middle if
| they fall where the break "-width" occurs.  hpux has an option called -s
| which will:
| 
|       -s             Break the line on the last blank character found before
|                      the specified number of column positions.  If none are
|                      found, break the line at the specified line length.
| 
| this is VERY useful, any plans on a similar funtion in irix?  or i guess
| i'll have to go get the GNU fold (does anyone know if it does it?  is it
| in GNU fileutils?)

No plans to add it that I know of, but it seems to me that this is
no different than using "fmt"...
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In article <3e28pd$1ju@gazette.engr.sgi.com>,
Dave Olson <olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>No plans to add it that I know of, but it seems to me that this is
>no different than using "fmt"...

I think the difference is that HP fold with the magic option will
produce lines which are always less than or equal to your desired
width, while fmt does not. fold will break in the middle of a sequence
of characters if there is no way to do a proper word break, fmt will
leave the string alone and pass a line wider than your desired width.





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olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>fish@daacdev1.stx.com (John Vanderpool) writes:
>| the irix version of the "fold" command breaks words in the middle if
>| they fall where the break "-width" occurs.  hpux has an option called -s
>| which will:
>| 
>|       -s             Break the line on the last blank character found before
>|                      the specified number of column positions.  If none are
>|                      found, break the line at the specified line length.
>| 
>| this is VERY useful, any plans on a similar funtion in irix?  or i guess
>| i'll have to go get the GNU fold (does anyone know if it does it?  is it
>| in GNU fileutils?)

>No plans to add it that I know of, but it seems to me that this is
>no different than using "fmt"...

well, after a few other replies stating that i seemed to think so too, but
there is a MAJOR difference, fmt tries to nicely format ALL of the text
into paragraphs.

thus, if you pass something into it that you don't want that done to (90%
of any text i use) it doesn't work right -- fold just takes lines that
are longer than the specified width and folds them over - quite a difference.

				fish
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fish@daacdev1.stx.com (John Vanderpool) writes:
| well, after a few other replies stating that i seemed to think so too, but
| there is a MAJOR difference, fmt tries to nicely format ALL of the text
| into paragraphs.

Yes, this is a major difference.  But most people just reformat
the lines that they want changed, if they don't want the whole thing.
I frequently do this when replying to mail, for example.

I'll submit this as an RFE against fold.  It might get done for
the next release.

Or you could write your own filter, of course, if you want it
a bit sooner ;)
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The most beautiful things in the world are              |   Dave Olson
those from which all excess weight has been             |   Silicon Graphics
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