Subj : Re: text reformating
To : Nigel Reed
From : Dan Clough
Date : Tue May 20 2025 08:16 am
-=> Nigel Reed wrote to All <=-
> -=> Dan Clough wrote to Grant Weasner <=-
>
> DC> man fold
> SD> fold is an amazing utility. Very helpful with text files.
> Indeed it is. A classic *nix utility - do one thing, and do it well.
> SD> When I was publishing th FidoGazette, I used fold a lot in
> SD> reformatting,
> Yes, very handy for making "wide" stuff fit on a 80x25 character
> screen. :-)
NR> So many useful, and maybe not so useful utilities out there.
NR> paste, will take 2 or more files and put them next to each other, like
NR> a sideways cat :)
NR> Talking of cat, there is also tac which will display a file from the
NR> bottom up.
NR> ncal is like cat but with the days down the side.
NR> To randomly shuffle the lines of a text file you can pipe it into shuf
NR> fmt is another text processor similar to, but different from fold.
Nice! Didn't know about a couple of those, thanks.
... Rehab is for quitters.
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