fold
filter for folding lines
TLDR
Wrap each line to default width (80 characters)
Wrap each line to width "30"
Wrap each line to width "5" and break the line at spaces (puts each space separated word in a new line, words with length > 5 are wrapped)
SYNOPSIS
fold [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Wrap input lines in each FILE, writing to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -b, --bytes
-
count bytes 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
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to
<https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2023 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
fmt(1) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fold> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fold invocation'
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
